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longer than the body. Upper parts greenish, with numerous black 

 spots which disappear with age. 

 North-eastern Australia. 



a. Twenty-sev(;n inches long (tail 14 inches). Hawkesbury River. 



Presented by G. Kroft't, Es(i. 



b. Young. Sydney. Presented by G. Krefft, Esq. 



c-d. Several adult and half-grown specimens. Cape York. Collected 

 by Herr Darnel. 



c. Adiilt : stuffed. Australia. Presented by Sir T. L. Mitchell. 



1 should not have hesitated to identify these specimens with 

 AiKjuiUa reinliardtii , Stcindachner, if the author's description did not 

 differ in one point of importance, viz. he describes the angle of tlie 

 mouth as being situated one diameter of the eye behind the hind 

 margin of tlie orbit. 



6. Anguilla macrophthalma. 



Muvacna (Anguilla) niacrophtlialmos, Peters, Monutsbcr. Ak. Wiss. 



Bed. 1852, p. 084. 

 Anguilla macrophthalma, Peters, Mossamb. Fluss/ische, p. 99, taf. 19. 



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

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

 one-fifth in that from the vciit, and is more than the distance be- 

 tween the commencements of the dorsal and anal fans. Lips mode- 

 rately developed. The angle of the mouth is below the hinder half 

 of the eye — which is large, rather more than one-half of the length 

 of the snout. Lower jaw somewhat longer than the upper. Lateral 

 teeth uniserial in both jaws. Tail considerably longer than body. 

 (Ftrs.) 



Zambezi. 



7. Anguilla mossambica. 



Tribranchus anguillaris, Peters in Midler, Ganoid, p. 193. 

 Anguilla mossambica, Peters,' Monatsber. Ak. Wiss. Perl. 1852, 

 p. G84 ; and Mossamb. Flussjische, p. 98, taf. 18. fig. 1. 



The length of the head is more than the distance of the gill- 

 opening from the origin of the dorsal fin, and contained once and two- 

 thirds in its distance from the vent ; it is nearly equal to the dis- 

 tance between the commencements of the dorsal and anal fins. Lips 

 narrow. The cleft of the mouth extends to the vertical from the 

 hind margin of the eye, which is ratlier small. Tail considerably 

 longer than body. Mandible prominent ; mandibulary teeth form- 

 ing a narrow band without groove. (Ptrs.) 



lliver Molumbo, east of the island of Mossambique. 



8. Anguilla vulgaris. 



Eel. Aal. Anguille. 



"E-yx*^*^?) Arislot. ii. c. 13, 15, & 17; iv. c. 8, 11,& 12; v. c. 5; vi. c. 



l;i & 1(J; viii. c. 2; Athen. lib. 7; /Elian, xiv. c. 8; Oppian, Hal. 



lib. 1. 



