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which is rather small. Tail longer than the body. Length of the 

 pectoral two-fifths of the length of the head. Brown, mottled with 

 darker. 



Feejee Islands. 



a. Twenty inches long. Kandavu. From the Godeffroy Museum, 



with the name M. mauiHeiisis. 



b. Three and a half feet long : stuffed. Nairai. Collected by T. M. 



Rayner, Esq. 



4. Anguilla bengalensis. 



Murjena anguilla, llain. Bucli. Fish. Gan;/. p. 22. 



maculata, Ham. Buck. I. c. p. 23 (not Lacep.). 



bengalensis, Gray, in Hurdw. III. Ind. Zool. 



Anguilla elphinstonei, Si/kes, Tram. Zool. Sue. ii. p. 377, pi. 67. fig. 3. 



brevirostiis, M'Clell. C'alc. Juurn. Nat. Hist. v. p. 177, pi. 5. fig. 1. 



arracana, M'Clell. I. c. p. 178, pi. 6. fig. 2. 



nebidosa, M'Clell. I. c. p. 179, pi. 5. tig. 2 ; Bleek. Verk. Bat. Gen. 



XXV. Nalcz. Benr/al, p. 153. 



variegata, M' Clell. I. c. p. 179, pi. 9. fig. 7. 



marniorata, Kaup, Apod. p. 43, fig. 32 (not Quoy ^- Gaim.). 



Very closely allied to A. latirostris. The length of the head is 

 contained once and one-fourth or once and one-third in the distance 

 of the gill-opening from the origin of the dorsal fin, and twice, or 

 very nearly twice, in its distance from the vent. Distance from 

 the commencements of the dorsal and anal fins rather shorter than 

 the head. Lips broad and fleshy ; lower jaw prominent. Angle of 

 the mouth immediately behind the eye, which is small. Tail con- 

 siderably longer than the body. The band of mandibulary teeth is 

 longitudinally divided by a groove. 



Indian continent. 



a, b-d. Adult and half-grown. Kiver Hooghly. 

 e-f. Half-grown. Madras. Presented by Captain Mitchell. 

 g. Adult. Nilgherrics. Collected by Surgeon F. Day. 

 h. Adult : stuffed. India. Purchased of Mr. Warwick. 



5. AnguiUa reinhardtii. 



? Anguilla reinhai'dtii, 'S^e(«f/«c/(M<'r, Sifzqsber. Ak. Wiss. TFiVw, 1867, 

 Iv. p. 15. 



The length of the head is contained once and one-third in the 

 distance of the gill-opening from the origin of the dorsal fin, one- 

 half of its distance from the vent, and conspicuously more than the 

 distance between the commencements of the dorsal and anal fins. 

 Snout long, depressed, spatulate ; lips fleshy. The cleft of the mouth 

 extends to the vertical from, or scarcely beyond, the hind margin of 

 the eye, which is small. A'omerinc teeth in a band, which is rather 

 broad anteriorly, being broader in the middle than the maxillary 

 band, and extending equally far backwards. The mandibulary band 

 of teeth is longitudinally divided by a narrow groove. Tail not much 



