24 BULLETIN 95, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Color in alcohol, back bluish ; sides silvery ; traces of lateral band 

 in some specimens. 



24. ENGRAULIS NASUS Kner and Steindachner. 



Engraulis nasiis Knee and Steindachner, Neue Fische Mus. Godeffroy, 

 1866, p. 388 (33), fig. 17; Chincha Islands, Peru.— Abbott, Marine 

 Fishes of Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 335. 



The validity of this species is questionable. From the description 

 it appears that the depth is somewhat greater, the eye larger, and 

 the snout and maxillary longer, than in E. ringens. 



Family LEPTOCEPHALIDAE. 



THE CONGER EELS. 



Genus LEPTOCEPHALUS (Gronow) Scopoli. 



The following two species have been described from Peruvian 

 waters : 



25. LEPTOCEPHALUS MULTIMACULATUS Steindachner. 



Leptocephalus mulfimaculatus Steindachner, Iclitli. Notizen, No. 9, 1869, 

 p. 27; Peru. — Abbott, Marine Fishes of Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1899, p. 332. 



26. LEPTOCEPHALUS PERUANUS Steindachner. 



Leptocephalus peruanus Steindachner, Ichth, Notizen, 1869, p. 28 ; Coast of 

 Peru. — Abbott, Marine Fishes Peru, Pi-oc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, 

 p. 332. 



Genus OPHICHTHUS Thunberg and Ahl. 



KEY TO SPECIES REPRESENTED. ♦ 



a.* Maxillary and mandibular teeth biserial in the adult. 



b^. Gape of mouth about 2.5 in length of head ; color olivaceous with 



large dark spots grandimaculatus, p 24. 



6'. Gape of mouth about 2.5 in length of head ; color uniform brown, 



clear on belly callaensis, p. 25. 



a.* Maxillary and mandibular teeth tri or quadriserial. 



Color dark brown above, yellowish olive below ; a row of small 

 white spots along lateral line anteriorly, similar spots on nape. 



paciftci, p. 25. 



27. OPHICTHUS GRANDIMACULATUS (Kner and Steindachner). 



ANGUILLA. 



OpMchthys grandimaculatus Kner and Steindachner, Neue Fische Mus. 



GodeflEroy, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 20, 1866, p. 389, pi. 5. fig. 13; 



Coast of Peru. 

 OpMchthus grandimaculatus Abbott, Marine Fishes of Peru, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 332. 



One specimen, field No. 09531, 38 cm. long, from Lobos de Tierra. 

 Trunk shorter than tail, 1.37 in length of latter; head 4 in trunk; 

 eye 6.66 in head, shorter than snout which is 5.7 in head; gape of 



