NO, T2;«i. , 1 pODA L PTSHES OF J A PA X—.TORD. IX A XD SXYDEn. 8 5 5 



in.sorted a little before middle of pectoral; dorsal and anal moderate. 

 Color pah> olivaeeous; a series of minute whitish pores along lateral 

 line, much smaller and less distinct than in Zrptocejjhalics myriaster, 

 4:7 of them in front of vent; a few similar but larger pores on head, 

 about 4 arranged in cross-series on the nape, these less numerous 

 than in Z. inyrijider; snout with large pores; no pale dots above lat- 

 eral line; pectoral largely l)lackish; dorsal and anal without black 

 margin; tip of tail with dorsal and anal fins for a space about two-fifths 

 length of head abruptly black, with a broad white margin. 



Fig. 7.— CoNfiKEi.r.rs megastomus. 



Shores of Japan in rather deep water. Known from Sagami and 

 Totomi bays. Here described from two examples, each about a foot 

 long; the one, dredged b}' the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer AJha- 

 tross off Hamamatsu (Totomi) in 34 fathoms, station 3730; the other, 

 taken with a long line (dabonawa) off' Misaki, by Kumakichi Aoki, and 

 presented to us by Professor Mitsukuri. The peculiar coloration of 

 the tail at once separates it from the other Congers. In its technical 

 characters it is almost as near LeptocejpJialus as Conrirellux. {niyag 

 large; ffro/ua^ mouth.) 



15. CONGRELLUS ANAGO (Schlegel). 

 ANACIO. 



Conger <mago Schlegei,, Fauna Japonica, 184(i, ji. 2o9, pi. cvrri, fig. 1, Nagasaki. — 



Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. Japan, \). 52. 

 Congromuraiia a)iago GttNTHER, Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 42, Jajjan, Aniboyna. — 



GttNTHER, Shore Fish. Challenger, 1880, p. 73, Yokohama. — Tsiiikawa, T*rel. 



Cat., 1897, p. 6, Tokyo. 

 ? ? Opli'isouia anagohlfs Bleeker, Atl. Mur., p. 27, Singapore, Celebes, Batjan, 



Aniboyna, Banda (distinguished from C. anagu by the smaller eye, st inter 



form, smaller head, and narrower border of the fins, the anal and tip of tail 



without black; probably a different species). 

 C'ongrellusrnceki, Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1900, y). 347, 



pi. XI, Tokyo, based on a large example with black pectoral; several such 



examples were taken by us in Tokyo Bay and at Wakanoura. Excei)t for 



the dark color of the jiectorals no difference can be detected. The insertion 



of the dorsal is sul)ject to considerable variation. 



Head If in trunk; head and trunk IjV to l^V i'^ total; form robust; 

 snout short, bluntish, 5 in head; eye very large, about as long as 

 snout; cleft of mouth reaching about to posterior part of pupil, 3| in 

 head. Teeth less closely set than in Leptoeephalux^ all pointed. 



