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teeth in jaws may show some difference. Until more specimens can 

 be examined I am placing this specimen with C. esculentus. 



Posada Arango (1909, p. 305) lists Conger vulgaris from the Colum- 

 bian Caribbean; however, this specimen is not a Conger since it is 

 described with tentacles and barbels. Metzalaar (1919) lists Conger 

 vulgaris from Curagao. I am unable to verify this specimen as C. 

 esculentus, but I am placing it here until it can be verified. 



Conger macrocephalus, new species 



Plate 1,m 



? Conger vulgaris Bleeker, 1864, p. 26, Java, Celebes and Letti. 

 ? Conger conger Weber and de Beaufort, 1916, p. 259. 



Holotype: USNM 164334, total length 803 mm., Philippines, 

 Verde Island passage, lat. 13°34'37'' N., long. 121°07'30" E., Feb. 

 22, 1909, collected by the Albatross, at a depth of 180 fathoms. 



Diagnosis: Teeth in upper jaws in two rows laterally; pores in 

 lateral line 35; pectoral rays 17; length of head 199. 



Description: Length of head 199; tip of snout to origin of dorsal 

 fin 247; tip of snout to anus 416; snout length 50; diameter of eye 24 

 length of upper jaw 66; length of pectorals 51; compressed teeth in 

 upper jaw 66; two rows of teeth in jaws, inner row two-thirds the 

 length of outer row; dorsal rays 288; anal rays 214; premaxillary 

 tooth-patch wider than long; origin of dorsal fin 10.41 percent behind 

 pectoral tip; preorbital bone without ossification bridging across 

 sensory canal; supraorbital pore 1; preoperculo-mandibular pores 

 9; vertebrae 137 (X-ray). Additional counts and proportional 

 measurements are recorded in tables 1, 2, 3, 5, 6. 



Geographical range: Philippines and East Indies. 



Remarks: This species is closely related to C. esculentus from the 

 West Indies; however, it differs from it by having fewer pectoral rays 

 and more compressed teeth in upper jaws (table 4). This species is 

 named in reference to its long head. 



Conger erebenniis (Jordan and Snyder) 



Plates 1,j, 4,b 



Leplocephalus erebenmis Jordan and Snj-der, 1901, p. 849 (in part), fig. 3 (type 



locality, Misaki, Japan). 

 Leplocephalus kiusiuanus Jordan and Snyder, 1901, p. 851 (Hakata, Kiushu, 



Japan) . 

 Conger japonicus Jordan and Hubbs, 1925, p. 194 (in part). 



Specimens studied: Six specimens, ranging in length from 429 to 

 776 mm., from the following localities: Japan: Misaki SNHM 6466 

 (holotype of erehennus) ; Hakata, Kiushu SNHM 6467 (type of 

 kiusiuanus) ; Idzu USNM 22563 ; Tokyo market USNM 49440; Suruga 

 Gulf USNM 163468. Korea: Fusan USNM 143410. 



