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Delalandi. Its nasal and vomerine teeth form a flat spoon-shaped 

 surface, with the handle towards the gullet. Toothless furrows 

 separate the palatines from the nasals, and also the plates of the 

 mandible at the symphysis. All the teeth are movable, pointed, 

 the points bent, and turned flatly backwards. From 1 5 to 18 rows 

 may be enumerated on the nasal bone. Head very flatly depressed, 

 with the eye rather anterior. Fins duly developed. Colour, 

 blackish-brown. 



Total length, 35-45 in. Length of tail, 21-25 in. To the 

 comer of the mouth, 1-73 in. To the eye, 1 -02 in. Length of the 

 pectoral, 1-22 in. 



D. Dorsal commencing behind, over, or a little before the anus. 



100. Anguilla Dussumieri, fig. 43. 



Anguilla Dussumieri, Kaujj. 



This eel is distinguished from the rest of the Indian species, and 

 from all others, by its dorsal commencing behind the anus. Its 

 eye, of medium size, is situated before the corner of the mouth, 

 and has a diameter equal to half the length of the snout, and the 

 pectoral is somewhat shorter than the mandible. Head tolerably 

 short and blunt anterioi'ly. In its dentition it resembles the 

 others, except that the vomerine plate goes farther back towards the 

 gullet than the palatines. 



Colour above, olive-green, with a yellowish border to the dorsal ; 

 below, smutty white. 



Total length, 20-88 in. Length of tail, 8-07 in. To the eye, 

 0-39 in. To the corner of the mouth, 0-79 in. To the pectoral, 

 2-70 in. To the dorsal, 906 in. Length of the pectoral, 0-67 in. 

 Height close to the pectoral, 0-95 in. 



Mahe, in Hindostan [Dmsumier). 



101. Anguilla mowa, fig. 44. 



Anguilla mowa, Bleeker, Murccnoiden et Verh. Bat. G. xxiii., p. 22. 



This eel resembles, in its colour and in the form of its dental 

 surfaces, the preceding species ; but is easily distinguished by its 

 dorsal commencing over the anus. Eye placed over the corner of 

 the mouth, and having a diameter rather exceeding half the length 

 of the snout. From the eye forwards the snout is broad, flattish, 

 and sloping to the sides. Mandible nearly equal in length to the 

 upper jaw. This fish has a medium massive form, being less high 

 than the preceding species. 



Total length 17-31 in. Length of tail, 10-24 in. To the eye, 

 39 in. To the corner of the mouth, 059 in. To the pectoral, 



