BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. Ill 



istration. M. Broquet, lieutenant commanding the man-of-war Mous- 

 tiqiie, MM. the naval commissaries Senne-Desjardines, Lhopital, Gestain, 

 and Castelin, have procured for me valuable information. If I have been 

 able to record in this report some fiicts possessing- interest, I certainly 

 owe it to the kind complaisance which I have met with from the per- 

 sons whose names I have just mentioned. 

 Paris, October 30, 1881. 



47.— A IVOTE OIV THE C'BJBAIV EEI.. 



By SETH E. MEEM. 



In Poey's Synopsis Piscium Cubensium and Enumeratio Piscium 

 Cubensium is recorded a species of the genus Anguilla, Anguilla cuhana 

 Kaup. V/ith a vicAv of testing the characters assumed to distinguish 

 this from our species of the same genus. I have carefully compared 

 specimens collected by Professor Jordan in Cuba with si)ecimens from 

 Wood's HoU and one specimen from Chewalla Creek, Alabama, and am 

 unable to tiud an y constant difference. I have also compared these spec- 

 imens with a number brought from Venice by Professor Jordan last 

 summer. They present the same difference found to exist in specimens 

 from both sides of the Atlantic examined by me last May (Bull. U. S. 

 Pish Comm. 1883, 430). In my opinion Anguilla culana cannot be con- 

 sidered as a distinct species, but as strictly identical with the Anguilla 

 rostrata. Below^ is given a table of eleven specimens, two from Cuba, 

 three from Wood's HoU, one from Eufaula, Ga, and five from Venice. 

 The proportions are gi%'en in hundredths of the length to end of last 

 vertebra. All the specimens mentioned are in the museum of Indiana 

 University. I am indebted to Professor Jordan for valuable aid. 



Dimensions. 



Locality. 



f t-. 



O g|o = 



^ 



C' "-C 



o 



a 

 o 



a 



^ o 

 r o 



Length of head 



Distance from end of snoat to front of 



dorsal 



Distance from end of snout to front of 



anal 



Distance from front of dorsal to front of 



anal 



Len.iith of mandible 



Length of pectoral 



DejUh of body at front of anal 



Distance from gills to vent 



Length of specimen in inches 



13 



34.J 



44J 



m 13i 



35 J 35 J 343 34 



45 



45} 



9i 

 C 

 4 

 6 



46 



44 



in 10 



6J 

 6 



12i 



31 



42s 



113 

 5' 

 4 

 5i 



27 

 42 



llf 

 30 



44 



28 

 42 



30J 31^ 30A| 29 

 18.116.213.121.7 4.45 7 



! I I I I 



14 

 4J 

 3f 

 -, 5J 

 30i 31 

 n.811.5 



15 

 H 



12 



30J 

 43* 

 13A 



12J 



29 



43i 



14 

 5 

 4 



5i 

 29A 

 9. 6:22. 4 -n.!' 



5i 



4 



6i 



14* 

 4 



131 

 35 



44| 



95 

 5J 

 4i 

 C 

 30£ 



122^ 



28J 



42* 



13| 

 34| 

 45| 





inj 



. ^^'^ 



5A' 5g 

 30* |30f 



