19 asrrers from our material in that the dark 
Seals figure 
bands are evidently incomplete below and obscure on the fins. 
The alleged smaller head for the present species, compared 
4 
with ¢, colubrinus, does not hold. 
A nome we SS Ee ASI EE SET OR et Rn 
19 Bull. Bur. Piss... vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 195, fig. 5. 
ir ee. 
MaculosyS (Cuvier). 
Myrichthys megnificus—CAppett}. ~ 
Head 142; depth 32 1/3; snout 5 1/8 in head; mouth cleft 
22; interorbital 5 1/3; eye 2; in snout; combined head and 
trunk 14 in rest of body; length 405 mm. Fiji. It agrees with 
the smaller paratype in the Academy. The spots on the head 
are, however, not evident in the Fiji example. 
We also give an account of the types of Pisoodonophis 
magnifica Abbott, compared in the Academy. The type. No. 1013. 
A. P., shows: Head 14 3/5; depth 29 1/5; D. about 466; 
A. 295: head width 3 2/3 its length; head depth 2; snout 4 4/5; 
mouth 3: mandible 23; interorbital 6; pectoral 1 2/5 in snout; 
eye 24; head 6 3/5 to anal origin. Body elongate quite slender, 
subcylindrical or but slightly compressed and more so towards 
end of gradually tepering tail. Head small,rather compressed, 
with swolen pharynx and upper profile more convex than lower. 
Snout conic, surface and profile convex, about long as basal 
width and tip projects well beyond mandible. Eye ellipsoid, 
supero-lateral, center at first 2/9 in head. Mouth moderate- 
ly small, nearly horizontal, wide, rictus not quite an eye- 
