elevated. Gill-opening about 2/3 in snout length. Pores on 
head small. No fins. Tail compressed and tip rounded. 
Color in aicohol: dark brown, finely mottled or marbled 
with paler or lighter. Under surface with fewer end fainter 
msrkings, Iris pale or whitish. The smaller example veries 
in color only in the coarser and fewer marblings and its lower 
surface, including mandible, largely plain. One without data 
end the other from Fiji. Richardson's figure in 1858, 
dorsal fold or keel, hardly a fin?. 
Uropterygius tigrinus (Lesson). 
Head 72; depth 22; snout 7 in head; 
orbital 7; mandibular 2. Body compressed, vent not clearly 
evident though tail slightly less than combined head and trunk 
Head width 5 1/6 its length. Snout rather obtuse, 
as wide. Kye rather large, elevated, nearer upper profile 
than lip, 5 in snout. Gape rather large, eye about midway 
in its length. Lower jaw little shorter. Lips firm. Outer 
row of fine uniform erect pointed teeth in each jaw and 
inside a series of larger depressible ones extending equal- 
ly far back above and below: several rather larce 
sible teeth in front above; vomer with median 
teeth. Front nostril in short tube near 
nostril simple pore in interorbital over 
orbital slightly convex. Gill-opening sm inconspicuous 
pore, low, no fins, end of tail compressed. 
