dusky blotches equally numerous. Pale spots also extend on 
fins and submerginal regions dusky. Mouth angle not dark. 
Gill-openings dusky. Iris pale slaty. Length 119 mm. Un- 
doubtedly similar to the nominal Muraena laysanus Stein- 
dachner. 
Two other examples in the Academy, without date, 
though probably Hawaiian, show: Head 7s; depth 12 2/3 to 
142; snout 5 4/5 in head; eye 9 to 95; gape 75 to 9 1/5; 
head 3 1/5 to 32 to vent; Length 217 to 280 mm. The color- 
ation has largely disappeared though sufficient remains to 
show agreement with Steindachner's account. 
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Gymnothorex stellatus (Lace; )e Tah ¢ 1 ge 
Head 5 4/5:to 8 1/8; depth 12 1/3 to pol. snout 5 to 6 
in head; gape 2 to 2 2/5; interorbital 7 to 9 7/8; mandible 
1 2/5 to 1 4/5. Body well compressed, combined head and 
trunk 11/6 to 11/3 in tail. Head attenuete, width 3 1/3 
to 4 in its length. Snout conic, width 1, to 14 its length. 
Eye little ellipsoid, little behind middle in gape, 
times nearer snout tip, or near first fourth in head; 
to 2 in snout. Mouth large, closes or not completely. Jaws 
nearly even, sometimes mandible slightly protrudes. Teeth 
uniserial in jaws end on vomer, and in front of each several 
enlarged; vomerine teeth with front ones well separated 
from uniform smaller ones, sometimes biserial in fromt 
though rerely for entire extent; below eyé front 1 to 3 
inner teeth each side but slightly larger than outer, some- 
