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595. LEPTOCONGER PERLONGUS (Peey). 



Head 4 in trunk ; tail about a third longer than rest of body ; gape 4 

 in head; eye large, If in snout; snout pointed: teeth hooked, short and 

 robust, subequal and uniserial, a few in front enlarged ; lower jaw much 

 shorter than upper; dorsal beginning just behind tip of pectoral. Violet 

 brown, pale below; dark points over the entire surface. (Poey.) Matan- 

 zas, Cuba; one specimen known, (jxr/oxr/ws, very long.) 



Neoconger pi'vlougtin, Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 07, pi. 9, fig. 3-4, 1874, Matanzas. 

 Leptoconger perlongtis, PoF.v, Ann. Hist. Nat. Esp., 2.50, 1880 ; Joiidan & Davis, I. c, r,44. 



163. STILBISCUS, Jordan & Bollman. 



SiUbiscus, Jordan & Bollman, Troc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, 540, (edwanhi). 



Body whip-shaped, with the tail very short ; teeth uniserial, some of 

 the anterior canine. Fins low, the dorsal beginning behind vent. One 

 species known. (ariXfiu, to shine.) 



596. STILBISCUS EDWARDSI, Jordan & Bollman. 



Head 71 in trunk, 4i in tail; snout 7 in head, its length somewhat 

 greater than distance between gill openings ; eye 1* in snout, li in inter- 

 orbital space ; cleft of mouth reaching to posterior margin of eye; upper 

 jaw 5 in head; height of gill opening 1^ in snout; teeth all uniserial, 

 some of the anterior enlarged, canine-like; dorsal beginning If length of 

 head behind vent ; length of first part about equal to head and pectoral; 

 developed part of dorsal at tail contained If times in the head ; pectoral 6 

 in head. Upper part of head and body above lateral line brown ; lower 

 parts bright metallic-bluish silvery ; dorsal and anal pale, the latter with 

 a dusky stripe on each side of its base ; pectorals dusky ; caudal black. 

 Green Turtle Cay, one of the Bahamas. One specimen known. (Named 

 for Dr. Charles Lincoln Edwards, of the University of Cincinnati.) 



Stilbisctis cdwardsi, Jorpan & Bollman, Troo. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888, 549, Green Turtle Cay, 

 Bahamas. (Coll, Edwards.) 



164. GORDIICHTHYS, Jordan & Davis. 



Gnrdiichthys, Jorhan & Davis, Prelim. Review Apodal Fishes, 044, 1892, {irrclilKx). 



Body whip-shaped, excessively long and slender; tail very short; ver- 

 tical fins low, the dorsal beginning close behind the nape. Teeth uniserial, 

 unequal, some of them canine-like. One species known. (Gordius, the 

 horsehair worm, from Top6io(;, the king whose complicated knot was cut 

 by Alexander ; lx6ug, fish.) 



597. (iORDIICHTIITS IRRETITUS, Jordan A Davis. 



Dorsal fin beginning before the gill opening, not far behind the nape; 

 trunk very long ; tail If in rest of body ; head about 16 in trunk (15 to 18, 

 the type being so injured that the gill openings can not be made out); 

 greatest depth of body 40 to 50 times in length of body ; upper jaw much 

 the longer, arched, the eye behind its middle ; eye moderate, 2^ in snout, 

 4^ in gape; lower jaw with one row of about 10 stoutish, recurved teeth 



