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the one named pbnperneaux by Cuvier in tlie smalhiess of the eye 

 and the comparative length of the snout. Among all the known 

 species, it may be known readily by the unwonted elongation of the 

 mandible. Eye, small, its diameter being only half the length of 

 the flat and pointed snout; its pupil is placed directly over the 

 angle of the mouth. Mandible, comparatively high, having a 

 height about equal to two diameters of the eye. Its length cori'e- 

 sponds with that of the short pectoral. The distance between the 

 tip of the snout and the base of the pectoral amounts to once' and 

 three-fourths the distance between the pectoral and dorsal fins. 

 Latei'al line showing in relief, with projecting pores. Colour, olive- 

 green above ; yellowish beneath. Innumerable black points can 

 be seen on the back and sides by the aid of a lens. Pectoral, yel- 

 lowish exteriorly ; olive-coloured on the side next the body. 



Total length, 12-60 in. Length of tail, 7-29 in. To the corner 

 of the mouth, 0-36 in. To the pectoral, 1'38 in. To the dorsal, 

 3-94 in. Length of pectoral, 0-39 in. 



75. Anguilla plattcephala, fig. 25. 



L'anguille verniaux, Cuvier. 

 L'anguille platbec, Cuvier. 



Centre of the eye placed over the angle of the mouth ; and its 

 diameter contained about twice in the length of the depressed 

 snout. Lips, thin. Vomer extending to the front of the orbit. 

 Pectorals as long as the mandible. The distance from the tip of 

 the snout to the pectoral is not contained twice in the distance 

 between the pectoral and dorsal fins, the proportion being as 

 1 : 1^-4, or as ] : If. 



Colour of the dorsal aspect, olive-green ; silvery under the dis- 

 tinctly porous furrowed lateral line ; belly and fins yellowish. In- 

 numerable dark points sprinkled over the sides, back, and dorsal 

 fin. 



An example of this species, which measures 15'74 in., has the fol- 

 lowing lengths of parts: — Of the tail, 906 in. To the corner of 

 the mouth, 0'51 in. To the pectoral, 1'81 in. To the dorsal, 

 472 in. Length of the pectoral, 0-51 in. Height of the body 

 near the pectoral, 0-83 in. 



That this is the Anguille platbec of Cuvier, of which Yarrell 

 (ii., p. 299) has given a figure (the "Grig"), I cannot at present 

 precisely determine ; or whether it is correctly separated, as a spe- 

 cies, from latirostris, or not. The specimen which I have described 

 above is in the Paris collection, and was taken at Abbeville by M. 

 Baillon. 



76. Anguilla latirostkis, fig. 26. 

 Broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), Yarrell, ii., p. 298. 



The moderately large eye stands over the corner of the mouth, 

 and its diameter is not comprised quite twice in the length of the 



