by skin, without free orbital margin. Posterior nostrils opposite 

 to the upper or middle part of the eye, the anterior in a tube 

 close to the tip of the snout. Mouth wide, extending at least 

 to below middle of eye. Lips large, membranaceous. Tongue 

 free. Anterior teeth in jaws over a short distance irregularly, 

 in the upper jaw in 2 to 3, in the lower jaw in 3 to 4 series; 

 posteriorly in upper and lower jaw in one or two series: the 



Fig. 1 08. Dentition of Conger cinereus Rtipp. 

 a intermaxillary, m maxillary, md mandibulary, v vomerine teeth. X 3- 



inner series, which may be incomplete or even absent, with 

 small, conical teeth, in the outer series the equal teeth are 

 compressed and so closely set as to form a cutting edge. Vomerine 

 teeth arranged in a short conical group, the point of which 

 is directed backward; those on the intermaxillary plate in a 

 roundish group. No scales. Lateral line present. Gillopenings 

 large, situated nearly vertically below base of pectorals. 

 Distribution: Seas of temperate and tropical regions. 



Key to the indo-australian species of Conger. 



I. Origin of dorsal conspicuously in advance of the extre- 

 mity of the pectorals C. cinereus p. 258. 



II. Origin of dorsal about opposite to the extremity of 



the pectorals C. conger p. 259. 



i. Conger cinereus Riipp. 



Conger cinereus RUppell, Atlas Reise nordl. Afrika, Fische des Rothen Meeres, 

 1828, p. 115. 



