none ever wider than eye-diameter. Both dorsal and anal 
traversed by white cross-bars of trunk, Iris gray. Inside 
mouth pale or whitish, also mouth-corners and gill-opening. 
Length 383 mm. Samoa. Also one in the Academy from #ke Muscal 
Cove A tad a 
, 74353 mm. included above. It has 98 cross-bars 
of which 66 meet completely, while the Samoan example has 
only 55 cross-bars with 38 meeting. 
Gymnomuraens fasciatsa Kaup, said to be the type of 
Muraena molendinaris Bennett, simply renamed, and be 1270 
mm. long, was obtained at Mauritius, and has 100 to 114 
cross-bars, Jordan and Evermann figure a Hawaiian example 
| 29 
789 mm. long, showing about 91 rings. §. 
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ee ett. Ue ay Pee VOM, VOL. co, Dt. 1, 1903, 0. 106, 
20. 
sen eene polyzona (Richardson). 
OS co of Example, without data. 
&. dota F tooA i 
Echidna nebulosa (Ahl). : 
Head 8s to 10 1/8; depth 14 1/5 to 18 2/3; snout 5 1/3 
to 7'in head; gape 2 2/3 to 3 1/6; interorbital 6 1/8 to 8. 
Body moderately compressed, tail tapering and combined head 
and trunk very slightly less than tail. lead width 2 3/5 to 
3 1/8 its length. Snout rather obtuse, about long as wide. 
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Eye with front pupil edge about midway in gape; lq in snout. 
