42 MUH^NID^. 



small pores, much crowded, and appeariug like pinholes. Snout 

 short and rounded ; upper jaw scarcely longer than the lower. 

 Gape scarcelj" reaching beyond a vertical from the anterior part of 

 the eye. Dorsal fin commencing above the pectorals. Tail much 

 longer than body. Sides very regularly banded with fourteen or 

 fifteen transverse reddish-brown fascite, extending on to the dorsal 

 fin. (Jeni/ns.) 



Eeagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego). 



Three and a quarter inches long, 



3. Congromurasna anago. 



Conger anago, Schleg. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 259, pi. 113. fig. 1 (2) ; 



Bleek. Vcrh. Bat. Gen. xxv. Nalez. Japan, p. 52. 

 anagoides, Bleek. I. c. Mm: p. 76, or Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. vi. 



p. 112. 

 Opbisoma anagoides, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. 27 ; Knei-, Novara, 



Fisch. p. 375. 

 Congromurrena anagoides, Bleek, I. c. pi. 5. fig. 8. 



Lips moderately developed ; the cleft of the mouth extends nearly 

 to below the middle of the eye. Tail but little longer than the 

 body. Dorsal fin beginning above or immediately behind the gill- 

 openiug. Vertical fins with a blackish margin. 



Japan ; East-Indian archipelago. 



a, h-c. Adult (22| inches long) and half-grown. Japan. 



d. Young. Amboyna. Purchased of Hr. Frank. 



e. Half-grown. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Bleeker's Col- 



lection. — Type of C. anagoides. 



4. Congromuraena mellissii. 



Lips thin. Snout short, equal in length to the eye, which is 

 one-fifth of the length of the head ; vpperjaiu but slightly projecting 

 beyond the lower. Anterior nostril in a very short tube ; posterior 

 nostril pore-like, opposite to the middle of the eye. Cleft of the 

 mouth exteruling nearly to below the middle of the eye. Teeth in 

 rather narrow bands, finely viUiform ; the vomerine band reaching 

 to the vertical from the fi'ont margin of the eye. The length of the 

 head is contained once and two- thirds in that of the trunk ; tail 

 rather longer than the body. Dorsal Jin beginning immediately in 

 front of the gill-opening. Greyish; vertical fins with a narrow 

 black edge. 



St. Helena. 



a. Fine specimen, 17 inches long. Presented by J. C. MeUiss, Esq. 



5. CoEgromuraena habenata. 



Congrus babenatus, Richards. Ichtli. Fnh. 6,- Terr. p. 109, pi. 60. 



figs. 1-5. 

 Congermurasna kabenata, Kaup, Apod. p. 108, fig. 72 (copied from 



Bichardson). 

 ? Opbisoma babenatus, Kiur, Novara, Fisch. p. 374, taf. 13. fig. 2. 



