some of the latter approximate. along anal base. Dorsal with 
paler blotches. Anal largely whitish, sometimes dark brown 
blotches on tail inferiorly reflected basally. Pectoral pale 
or whitish. Spots on side of head and below, latter mostly 
small and pale. Mandible with several smell brownish spots. 
Iris pale slety. Length 686 mm. 
Paratype, No. 10135. A. N. S. P., same data, shows: 
Head 142; depth 45; head width 3 in its length; head depth 
22. snout 44; mouth 3; head 5 7/8 to anal; length 407 mm, 
Tt has fewer spots than the type though similarly distributed. 
A drawing, without data agrees largely with the Wilkes 
example and also the Ophichthys stypurus Smith and Swain, 
as figured by Jordan end Evermann. There is a marked differ- 
ence, however, in that the upper surface of the head is 
marked with three lsrge dark blotches. 
Ophichthys cephalozona (Bleeker). ACY oS ae 
Head 9 4/5 to 102; depth 30 4/5 to 37; snout 5 to 5 2/3 
in head; gape 3 1/6 to 3 1/5; interorbital 6 1/5 to 72; men- 
dible 2 2/5 to 2 2/3; pectoral 3 to 3 1/5. Body subcyclind- 
rical, combined head and trunk 17 in teil. Head width 3 to 
3 3/5 its length. Snout conic, long as wide. Eye ellipsoid, 
12 to 1 4/5 in snout. No eyelids. Gape extends very slightly 
beyond hind eye dege. Lips fleshy, rather wice, covered with 
minute wide-ste papillae. Smali fleshy point on upper lip 
about midway in snout length and another below front eye edge. 
