raneous inscription of "Cape Verde Islands” as it was more 
likely obtained in Polynesia. Compared with the Atlantic M. 
melanotus (Kaup) it differs in the tail being slightly 
shorter than the combined head and trunk, 
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me leagri Ss ( ohaw ) 6 - ap f ! est 
Head 5 7/8 to 72: depth 10 to 15; snout 42 to 64 in 
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head; gape 2z to 2; interorbital 5: to 74; mandible 15 
to 2 1/8. Body strongly compressed, tail about 1 1/5 to 
1 1/6 in combined head and trunk (tail slightly damaged). 
Head width 2 3/5 to 3s in its length. Snout conic, width 
1 to 11/6 in its length. Eye about midway in gape, center 
about first fourit in head; eye 1 2/3 to 17/8 in snout. 
Mouth not completely closing, exposes teeth. Lower jaw 
slightly shorter than upper. Upper teeth irregularly bi- 
serial along sides, often with very slight deviation from 
uniserial; lower teeth uniserial; 6 large depressible conic 
canines in front of mouth above and single row of short 
blunt median vomerine teeth below and behind eye; upper jaw 
laterally with row of 6 to 9 larger depressible teeth 
inside outer series. Front nostril in short tube near snout 
tip and hind nostril small pore above front eye edge. In- 
terorbital slightly convex. Gill-opening about 1 2/5 in eye. 
Pores on muzzle inconspicuous. Dorsal begins about midway 
between rictus and gill-opening, or more advanced. 
Color in alcohol: deep brown, mottled everywhere with 
