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Height ii to more than 22; head [measured to base of pecto- 

 rals] 7.1 7.9; 1.2 1.6 in trunk. Head and trunk 2 2.3 in 

 tail. Eye 6 to nearly 10, 1.8 2.3 in snout, situated nearer to 

 corner of mouth than to tip of snout. Cleft of mouth 2 2 J / 4 

 in length of head. Origin of dorsal before or behind middle 

 of length, situated at a distance behind anus equal to or one 

 half longer than head. Its distance from head is more than 

 two to nearly three lengths of head [2.3 to 2.8]. Length of 

 pectorals 2.3 to 2.4 in length of head. Scales rudimentary, 

 rounded, imbedded in the skin, extending to hindborder of 

 eye. Dark brown. Length nearly 700 mm. [Description made 

 after 3 specimens at our disposal]. 



Habitat: Ceram Sea: 1914 M. depth, mud!; Banda-or 

 Celebes-Sea! (locality not quite sure); North of New Guinea: 

 1957 M. Japan (Sagami Bay 63 1 M.) ; near coast of North East 

 Africa 693 M. 



10. Fam. MORINGUIDAE. 



Body scaleless, cylindrical. Anus far behind middle of length. 

 Dorsal and anal confined to the tail, confluent with the caudal. 

 Dorsal and anal rather low or reduced to a low fold, which 



Fig. 164. Moringua javanica (Kaup). X 2 /3- 



contains visible rays only at its end. Pectorals short, vistigial 

 or absent. Snout rather short, the lower jaw may be prominent. 

 Cleft of mouth reaching to below or behind hindborder of 

 eye. Eye small or nearly hidden below skin. Posterior nostrils 

 a subtubulate opening near the middle of the frontborder of 

 the eye. Anterior nostrils in a tube near end of snout. Tongue 



