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7. LEPTOCEPHALUS MYRIASTER (Brevoort). 

 MAANAdO, TRUE CONGER. 



Ati;/iilll<i. iiu/riftstcr Kkevoort, U. S. Expd. Janan, 1856, p. 282, pi. xi, tijr. 2, from a 



rough but characteristic drawing made at Hakodate. 

 Lfptncephalus viyrlm^tcr Jordan and 8nydek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1900, XXIII, 



p. 347, Tokyo, Hakodate. 

 <'o)i(j('r viUgarls lfiT\iK\\\\\, Prel. Cat. Fisli., 1897, p. 7, Hakodate, Tokyo. 



Head, IfV in trunk (If in young); head and trunk, If in tail (if in 

 young); lower jaw included; snout blunt, -i in head; eye, 2 in .snout, 

 rather small; mouth moderate, the maxillary rif in head, reaching pos- 

 terior part of pupil; pectoral rounded, 2f in head, the dorsal inserted 

 over its last third or fourth, dorsal and anal rather high. 



Color dusk}' ])rovvn, paler below; a row of I'ound whitish spots along 

 side of back, regularly placed, beginning with a median spot at the 

 nape, these spots found in no other species; lateral line very distinct, 

 of a row of close-set white pores, just below the lateral line itself, 

 about 38 of these ])efore the vent; a cross series of 16 to 24 whitish 

 pores on nape, just before the median spot; four series of small pores 

 running forwaixl from this; numerous stellate pores, regidarly arranged 

 about eye, on snout and on opercle; dorsal and anal each with a l)road 

 black median band meeting around the tail; pectoral more or less 

 dusky in adult, pale in the young. 



Description from a specimen 23 inches long from Hakodate. Others 

 from Hiroshima, Tokyo, Onomichi, Nagasaki, and elsewhere agree in 

 essential resp<H'ts, the pores on the head indistinct in those under 6 

 inches in length. 



Coasts of Japan, very al)undant; obtained by us at Mororan, Mat- 

 sushima. Same, Hakodate. Tokyo, Misaki, Hiroshima, Wakanoura, 

 Kobe, Onomichi, Hakata, and Nagasaki. It reaches a length of 2 to 

 4 feet and is much used as food: {fj,vpiog, myriad; afftyjp^ star, from 

 the stellate spots, which at once separate this species from other 

 congers). 



8. LEPTOCEPHALUS EREBENNUS Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



DAINANANACiO (FORMOSA CONGER); KANAKIUIANAGO (CRAB-EATING 



CONGER). 



.^ Co;(f/('r '■»/;/(( r/.s St'HLEGEL, Fauna Japouica, 1847, p. 259, Nagasaki; not of Euro 

 pean waters. 



Head, 1^ in trunk; head and trunk, 1^ in tail; lower jaw not very 

 short; snout moderate, 4 in head; eye. If in snout; mouth rather large, 

 the maxillarj^ 2f in head, extending to opposite posterior border of 

 pupil; pectoral rounded, 3 in head; dorsal inserted over its tip; distance 

 from gill opening' to front of dorsal, 2f in head, dorsal and anal high. 



Color almost black, the sides marbled, the belly mottled dusky; 



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