234 Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of JYorth America. 



4. Anguilla serpentina, Lesueur. 



Anterior part of body larger than the posterior. Pectorals very large. Head large, 

 snout short. Color a dark copper-brown, which is lighter on the sides and belly ; the fins 

 of the color of the body, though paler ; the dorsal fin arises nearer the pectorals than that 

 of the A. argentea. 



D. (?). P. (?)■ A. (?). C. (?). Length, (?). 



Rhode Island, Lesuedr. 



Murania serpentina, Snake-Eel, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, i. p. 31. 



5. Anguilla macrocephala, Lesueur. 



Head very large and elevated. Snout short. Eyes large and prominent. Olivaceous- 

 yellow above ; from the angle of the mouth a golden band extends beyond the pectoral 

 fins ; beneath pure white. 



D. (?). P. (?). A. (?). C. (?). Length, (?). 



Saratoga Lake, New York, Lesueur. 



Mursena macrocephala, Bull-head Eel, Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, I. p. 82. 

 Anguilla macrocephala, Bull-head Eel, Dekay's Report, p. 313. 



6. Anguilla oceanica, Mitchill. 



Jaws equal. Tail pointed. Above brown ; on the sides pale ; belly smutty. A dark or 

 somewhat bluish border on the vertical fins. 



D. (.'). P. (?). A. (?). C. (?). Length, 4 feet. 

 New York, Mitchill. 



Anguilla oceanica, Sea-Eel, Mitchill, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc, I. p. 407. 

 " " " " Dekay's Keport, p. 312. 



As intimated by Dekay, in his Report, this will probably prove to be, upon further investi- 

 gation, a species of Conger. 



7. Anguilla lutea, Raf. 



Head flattened above, abruptly elevated behind the eyes, ventricose beneath the throat. 

 Lower jaw projecting. Tail carinate at its extremity. Yellowish-brown on its sides and 

 back, and whitish on the belly ; the two colors meeting abruptly on the sides of the abdomen. 



D. (.'). P. (>)• A. (.'). C. (?)• Length, 2 to 3 feet. 



Ohio, KlRTLAND. 



Anguilla lutea, Yellow Eel, Rap., Ichth. Ohien., p. 78. 



" " Kirtland, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv. p. 2.34, pi. 11, fig. 2. 

 Anguilla laticauda (?), Broad-tailed Eel, Rap., Ichth. Ohien., p. 77. 



