The Freshwater Fishes of South Africa. 469 



One specimen, 392 mm. in length, from M'fongosi, Zululand 

 (W. E. Jones). 



It is also reported from the Indian and South Pacific Oceans, entering 

 rivers of East and South Africa. 



3. * ANGUILLA AUSTRALIS, Richards. 



Anguilla australis, Richards., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1841, p. 22, and 

 Trans. Zool. Soc,, iii, 1843, p. 157 ; M.Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. xv, i, 

 1912, p. 593 ; Bouleng., Freshw. Fish. Africa, iii, p. 9, fig. 6 (1915). 



An<in!l/<i I'n-nlor, McClell., Calcutta Journ. N. EL, 1845, p. 178, pi. vi, 

 fig. 1 ; Giinth., Cat. Fish., viii. p. 35 (1870). 



Muraena macrocephala, Rapp, Jahresh. Ver. Nat. Wiirttemb., iv, 

 1849, p. 142, pi. ii. 



Muraena (Anguilla") virescens, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac., 1852, p. 684. 



Anguilla amUodon, Playf. and Giiuth., Fish. Zanzibar, p. 125, fig., 

 1886 ; Giinth., t.c., p. 37. 



Anguilla virescens, Peters, Reise Mossamb., iv, p. 101, pi. xxiii, 

 fig. 2 (1868) ; Pfeffer, Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 71 (1896) ; Giinth., 

 Fische Siid-see, p. 392 (1910). 



ill a rirescens (part.), Giinth., t.c., p. 35. 





FIG. 114. Anguilla australis. Licuare R. (type of A. virescens), after 

 Peters (Reise Mossamb.). . 



" Teeth forming broad bands, in 4 to 10 series, on the sides of the 

 upper and lower jaws.* Mouth extending to below posterior border 

 of eye or beyond ; lower jaw projecting. Distance from end of snout 



* In this, as in other species, the bands of teeth are wider in the adult than 

 in the young, the great width of these bands in the type of A. amUodon being 

 due to its large size (1070 millim.). 



