apart. Lips rather thick ; upper jaw the longer. Teeth of ahoufc 

 equal size ; the voinerine band extending backwards to about half 

 the length of the maxillary band. Fins dorsal commences slightly 

 behind the gill-opening ; pectoral nearly half as long as the head. 

 Colour brownish along the back, becoming dull white beneath. 

 Fins yellow, the vertical ones with a narrow black edging. Upper 

 half of pectoral occasionally stained with black. 



Hal. Coromandel coast of India to the Malay Archipelago. 



5. Genus UEOCONGER, Kaup. 



Syn. Congerodon, Kaup. 



GihVopemngs rather wide. Muciferous cavities on jaws mode- 

 rately developed. Hind nostril in the form of a slit opposite the 

 upper third of the orbit ; front nostril not tubular. Eyes rather 

 large. Cleft of mouth reaching to rather behind the middle of 

 the orbit. Teeth fiue, conical, and subequal in size ; those in the 

 jaws biserial ; the vomerine teeth in a single elongated row and 

 small. The dorsal fin commences above the root of the pectoral : all 

 the fins well developed. Scaleless. 



Geographical Distribution. Seas of India to the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, China, and the Philippines. 



98. (1.) Uroconger lepturus. (Fig. 37.) 



Congrus lepturus, Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Ich. p. 106, pi. 56, figs. 



1-6. 

 Uroconger lepturus, Day, Fish. India, p. 061, pi. clxx, fig. 1 (see 



synon.). 



Tolaka, Marathi. 



B. ix. P. 10. D. 200-220. C. 10. A. 120-150. 



Length of head 2^ to 2| in the distance between the end of the 

 snout and the vent ; length of trunk about half that of the tail. 

 Cleft of mouth rather oblique, and ceasing below the hind edge of 

 the eye ; the extent equals about two fifths of the length of the head. 



Fig. 37. Uroconger leptunis and upper teeth. 



Eyes 2 to 2 1 diameters in the length of the snout, and 1 to 1^ 

 diameters apart. Snout depressed, with a row of slit-like openings 

 above the edge of the upper lip. Teeth rather large and unequal 



