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applied to the species of this group by any of the Filipinos with 

 the exception of the Visayans, who call them obud or obod. 



I have described one species of wide distribution m the Indian 

 and Pacific Oceans, and one larval form known only from the 

 Philippines. 



(Ruppell) . 



Kuppell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afrika, Fische des 



Rothen Meers (1828) 115, pi. 29, fig. 1; Weber and Beaufort, 



Fishes Indo-Austr. Arch. 3 (1916) 258, figs. 5, 107, and 108. 



Conger marginatus Valenciennes in Eydoux and Souleyet, Voyage 



Bonite, Poiss. (1841) 201, pi. 9, fig. 1. „ a «. 



Leptocephalus marginatus Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish 



Comra. 23 (1903) (1905) 76. MMJ * M 



Conger noordzieki Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Muram. 4 (1864) 26, pi. 23, 

 fig. 2. 



Head and trunk 2 in tail ; head 8.68 in total length and 1.88 

 in trunk; greatest depth 16.44 in total length; mouth 2.4, snout 

 3.6 in head; eye longer than high, its length a trifle more than 

 one-third that of jaw and equal to interorbital space; pectoral 

 2.88 in head. 



Body elongate, rounded, becoming strongly compressed and 

 tapering on tail; head long, pointed anteriorly but sides bulging 

 strongly just behind eye; snout depressed, flattened above, and 

 projecting beyond lower jaw; eye large, elliptical; mouth moder- 

 ate, reaching not quite as far as hinder margin of eye, lips 

 broad, thick, fleshy flaps ; anterior nostrils near tip of snout, in 

 short tubes which point downward; posterior nostrils imme- 

 diately in front of eye and slightly below its upper margin; 

 pectoral at upper angle of large gill openings ; origin of dorsal 

 just behind middle of pectoral. 



Color dark grayish brown above, the undersurface pale to 

 whitish, much paler anteriorly; a blackish streak from forward 

 margin of eye to behind angle of mouth ; dorsal and anal pale, 

 becoming dark far back on tail, their free margin with a black 

 band, edged with white; pectorals with a conspicuous black 

 blotch. 



The description above is from a specimen 625 millimeters 

 long, purchased in the market at Jolo. Its other measurements 

 are as follows: Head, 72 millimeters; tail, 417; depth, 38; upper 

 jaw, 30; snout, 20; eye and interorbital space, each 11. 



An unlabeled specimen in the Bureau of Science collection 

 has the following dimensions: Length, 610 millimeters; head, 



