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times in head, reaching somewhat behind hindborder of eye. 

 Length of head less than its distance from dorsal ('/,o — Vs ^^ 

 length of head), somewhat more or less than half its distance 

 from anus, equal to or somewhat less than the distance between 

 dorsal and anal. Pectorals a little more than thrice in head. 

 Length of snout scarcely more than the breadth at its base. 

 Tail '/o of its length, longer than head and trunk. Vomerine 

 teeth in an elongate quadratic patch with somewhat concave 

 sides anteriorly, tapering rather abruptly posteriorly into a 

 lancet-shaped peduncle, which ends before the maxillary band 

 of teeth. This last tapers posteriorly and is formed by one row 

 of larger teeth, with on its outer side a row of smaller teeth 

 and on its inner side an edentulous groove, which is bordered 

 by an incomplete row of smaller teeth. The same occurs in 

 the lower jaw. Colour of alcohol specimens light below, other- 

 wise dark green with more or less distinct darker marmorations. 

 Vertical fins often with a light border. Is said to attain 1200 mm. 

 Habitat: Sumatra (Serdang !), Java ! '), Celebes (Menado !) — 

 Burma and British India. 



2. Anguilla mauritiana Benn. [Fig. 100, 102, p. 243, 246]. 



Angidlla niaiiritiana Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, 1831, p. 128. 

 Anguilla labrosa Richardson, Zool. Voy. Erebus & Terror, vol. III. 1844,1). ^'3- 

 Anguilla labiata Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin, 1852, p. 684. 

 Anguilla elphinstonei Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, vol. IV, 1853, p. 504 



(nee Sykes). 

 Muraena macidata Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. vol. IV. 1864, p. 9 (nee Ham. Buchanan). 

 Anguilla johannae Giinther, in: Playfair & Giinther, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 124. 

 Anguilla labiata Giinther, Ibid. p. 124. 

 Muraena inannorata Kner, Novara-Reise, Fische 1865 — 1867, p. 369 (nee (2. & G., 



nee Kaup). 

 Anguilla labiata Peters, Reise nach Mossambique, Flussfische, 1868, p. 94. 

 Anguilla mauritiaiia Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. vol. VIII. 1S70, p. 25 (nee Synon.). — 



Fische d. Sudsee, Vol. III. 1910, p. 390. 

 Anguilla fidjicnsis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. vol. VIII. 1870, p. 26. — Fische 



d. Siidsee, vol. III. 1910, p. 390. 

 Muraena mauritiana Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. vol. IV. 1873, p. 123. — 



Arch, neerl. sc. nat. vol. XIII. 1878, p. 38, 56. 

 Anguilla labiata Pfeffer, Ostafrikanische Fische, gesamm. von Stuhlniann, Jahrb. 



Hamburg. Anst. vol. X. 1893, p. 41. 



i) Two stuffed specimens in the Leiden Museum, the measurements of which 

 Miss C. PoPTA was kind enough to take for us (see F. Sarasin and J. Roux. 

 Nova Caledonia. Zoologie II. Poissons par M. Weber & de Beaufort 191 5, p. 23). 



