192 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



rarnilv AXCL ILI.ID.^i. 

 ANGUILLA Thunberg. Tuna. 



124. Anguilla mauritiana Bennett. Tnnti tufa' i-hiutiilo; Tuna guldla. Waigiu; Taliiti; Samoa, in 



rivers; Joliannal.; Levnka and Ovalau; Fiji ( (iCmtlier ); East Indies. 

 Anguitia 7naurilkma Bennett, Proc. Coram. Zool. Soc. 18:!1, 128, Mauritius. Giinther, Cat., viii 26, Amboina, 

 Ceylon, Philippine.'!, Formosa, Almorah, Johanna I. Gunther, Shore Fishes, Challenger. 1880, 58, Lake 

 Waiheira (Tahiti). 

 Anguitia marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 1824, 241, Waigiu. 

 Muriemi marmorata Kner, Novara Fische, 369. Tahiti, Hongkong. 

 Anguitia labrosa Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 113, 1846, South Seas. 

 Murtena macutata Bleeker, Atlas, Murjenidse, 9, tab. i, tig. 2, East Indies; not of Laci-pide. 

 Anguitia jokanme Gunther, Fish. Zanzibar, 124, Johanna I. 

 This species is the commonest eel of the Samoan Islands, abounding in quiet waters in all the 

 streams, and reaching a considerable size. We have about 20 specimens, mostly from Vaisigano River. 

 The species ^aries considerably in the insertion of the dorsal, which is always well forward, however. 

 The body is always finely mottled or marbled, hence the vernacular name of tuga tafailotalo, or 

 "eel colored like [boiled] taro." 



Life colors of one specimen from Apia, dark brown, everywhere reticulate with darker. Another 

 was mottled olive and black; dorsal and anal edged with pale. 



125. Anguilla fidjiensis Giinther. Rivers of Fiji. 



Anguilla Jicljiensis Gunther, Cat., vni, 26, 18TU, Kandavu and Nairi iFijii. 

 This species, which we have not seen, is very close to AmjuiUa viauriliana, and seems within 

 the limits of variation of that species. 



126. Anguilla obscura Giinther. Fiji. 



AiHiuilla obscura Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Vii't. 1871,673, Fiji. 



127. Anguilla otaheitensis Kaup. Tahiti. 

 AmiuiUa nliilidtinsi.i Kaup, Aale Hamb. Mus. 17. Tahiti. 



128. Anguilla megastoma Kaup. Tuna mea. Mangareva; Aneiteum; Tahiti; Samoa; Rarotonga; 



Tubuai; Austral Is.; Nukahiva, Marquesas Is. (Seale). 

 Anguitia megastoma Kaup, Apodes 30, Megareva. 



Anguilla aneitensis Giinther, Cat., vui, 34, 1870, Aneiteum. Guntlier, Shore Fishes, Challenger, 1880, 58, Lake 

 Waiheira (Tahiti). 



This species is uniformly colored above, pale below, with the dorsal well forward, though less 

 advanced than in Anguilla mauritiana; the teeth in very broad bands, the vomerine band narrower 

 than the maxillary bands. We have two specimens from the Vaisigano River at Apia. Tiaup's 

 type is said to come from Megarava, which is evidently a misprint for Mangareva, one of the 

 Gambler Islands. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, yellow brown, belly and dorsal yellow; fine yellow dots on 

 lateral line. Much paler and more yellow than Anguilla auMralis. Dorsal tin more advanced. 



129. Anguilla sidat Bleeker. Samoa; New Zealand. 



Thesi)ecies seems to differ from Anguilla australis in having the maxillary extending beyond the 

 eye, the vomerine teeth also extending backward almost as far a-s the maxillary teeth. We have one 

 large specimen from Samoa answering to the description nf tins species. VVere it not for the much 

 longer maxillary we should think this the adult of An'inllh: inishnlix. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, plain dark tiniwii, vi'llow below; dorsal grayish dusky. Dor- 

 .sal posterior. 



130. Anguilla australis Richardson. Samoa; New Zealand; East Indies. 



Of this species we have half a dozen young from the streams ( Vaisigono, Gasegase) about Apia. 

 They seem to agree perfectly with Anguilla australig, having the dorsal inserted a little before vent and 

 the vomerine band of teeth considerably shorter than the maxillary band. 



