Ophichthus polyophthalmus Bleeker. 
Head 11 2/5; depth 273; snout 5 1/6 in head; gape 2 7/8; 
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interorbitsl 65; mandible 2 2/5; pectoral 54. Body moderate- 
ly compressed; tail about I 1/5 in combined head and trunk. 
Head width about 3 in its length. Snout conic, depressed, 
wide as long. Eye elongate, center near first fourth in head; 
eye 2 in snout. No eyelids. Gape long, reaches back half an 
eye-diameter at least beyond eye. Lips moderate. Upper. jaw 
extends about an eye-ciameter beyond lower. Four large Can- 
ines in front above. Jaw teeth uniserial. First pair of lower 
teeth slightly enlarfed. Single row of smail teeth on veomr, 
first tooth largest. Tongue fleshy, not free. Front nostril 
in fleshy tube nearly long as pupil, near snout end. Hind 
nostril slit in upper lip about midway in snout length. 
Interorbital nearly level. Gill-opening 1g in snout. Dorsel 
begins close behind pectoral origin, fin height about equals 
gape. Anal much lower than dorsal. Tail ends in firm slender 
point. 
Color in alcohol: with about 18 dppe brown obscurely 
defined close-set pairs of rings, each with small pele or 
whitish center down back next to dorsal fin. Alternating 
along each side above, row of similer but larger rings, 
these einbracing most of space above lateral line. Alternat- 
ing along 1. 1. row of similar dark rings. Below l. l. 
still another row of similar rings, but these opposite upper 
laterals. On tail beneath row of kaete rings, separated only 
by anal fin and on tail behind rings fuse and become broed. 
Dorsal with partly basal row of dark-edged ocelli, alternate 
