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prominent, thrice in length of head. Cleft of mouth 3.4 in 

 length of head, reaching to hindborder of pupil. Dorsal beginning 

 shortly behind base of pectorals, its distance from the gill- 

 openings more than twice in eye. Pectorals thrice in head. 

 Teeth in jaws acicular, in rather broad bands of about three 

 to four irregular series, the outer series somewhat enlarged, 

 not forming a cutting edge. On the intermaxillary plate a 

 rather broad patch of large teeth, situated outside the mouth, 



Fig. 112. Congrellus roosendacfli n. sp. nat. size. 



behind them and separated by an edentulous interspace, a 

 small group of strong teeth anteriorly on the vomer. Colour 

 in spirit light reddish brown, in a young specimen the dorsal 

 and anal have a narrow black border, more conspicuous ante- 

 riorly. Length 250 mm. [Type of the species in the Zoological 

 Museum of Amsterdam]. 



Habitat: Off Northeast point of Java. 270 M. depth. Col- 

 lected by the Government Fisheries Investigation ship "Gier" 

 September 6, 1909. Named after its commander A. M. VAN 

 ROOSENDAAL. 



2. Congrellus anago (Schlegel). Fig. 109, in on p. 260,261 



Conger anago Schlegel, Fauna Japon. 1846, p. 259. 



Conger anagoides Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Bijdr. Muiaenoid. p. 76.- 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. VI. 1854, p. 112. 

 Ophisoma anagoides Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 27. 

 Congroinuraena anagoides Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, Plate V. fig. 3. 

 Ophisoma anagoides Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. 1865 — 1867, p. 375. 



