APODAL FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 
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Lepidopus pellucidus Risso, Ichfchy. Nice, 152, pi. 5, fig. 19, 1810 (Nice). 
Leptoceplialus Spallanzani Risso, Eur. M6rid., ill, 205, 1826 (Mediterranean). 
Leptocephalm gussoni Cocco, Isis., 1340, 1831 (Mediterranean). 
Leptocephalm candidissimus Costa, Faun. Nap. Pesci, C. tab. (Naples 
Leptoceplialus bibronii Kaup, Abodes, 149, fig. 12, 1856. 
Leptocephalm gegenbauri Kaup, Apodes, 149, fig. 11, 1856 (Messina). 
Leptoceplialus kbllikeri Kaup, Apodes, 148, fig. 10, 1856 (Messina). 
Leptocephalm longirostris Kaup, Apodes, 150, fig. 14, 1856 (Messina). 
Leptocephalm punctatm Kaup, Apodes, 148, fig. 8, 1856 (Nice). 
Leptocephalm brevirostris Kaup, Apodes, 150, fig. 15, 1856 (Messina)^ 
Helmiclitlujs diaphanm Costa, Faun. Napol. Peso., tab. 31 (Naples). 
Leptocephalm gracilis Storer, Mem. Am. Ac., II, 524 (Massachusetts). 
Leptocephalm diaphanus Kaup, Apodes, 148, fig. 9, 1856 (Messina). 
Leptocephalm yarrdli Kaup, Apodes, 149, fig. 13, 1856 (Messina). 
Leptocephalm hceckeli Kaup* “Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vi, 270, pi. 3, fig. B, I860” 
(Messina). 
Leptoceplialus multimaculatus Steindachner, Ich. Notiz, ix, 27, 1869 (Pern). 
Leptoceplialus peruanus Steindachner, 1. c., 28 (Peru). 
Leptoceplialus ajfinis Facciola, Atti. Soc. Tosc., 4, fig. 1, 1884 (Straits of Messina). 
Leptocephalm inornatm, 1. c., p. 5, fig. 2. 
Leptocephalm sicanus, 1. c., p. 5, fig. 3. 
Leptocephalm borelli, 1. c., p. 6, fig. 4. 
Leptocephalm incequalis, 1. c., p. 7, fig. 5. 
Leptocephalm maurolici , 1. c., p. 7, fig. 6. 
Leptoceplialus gutturosus, 1. c., p. 8, fig. 7.- 
Leptocephalm peloritanus, 1. c., p. 9, fig. 8. 
Leptocephalm zancleus, 1. c., p. 9, fig. 9. 
Leptocephalm tenuirostris, 1. c., p. 10, fig. 10. 
Leptocephalm prestandrece, 1. c., p. 10, fig. 11. 
Leptocephalm esopas, 1. c., p. 11, fig. 12. 
Leptocephalm oxyrhynchus Bellotti, Atti. Soc. Ital., xxvi, 177, 1884 (Messina). 
Leptoceplialus polleni Facciola, Atti. Soc. Mod. Mem., i, 119, fig. 1, 1889 (Sea of Messina). 
Leptocephalm lalandii, 1. c., 120, fig. 2. 
Habitat : Atlantic Ocean on both coasts from Cape Cod to Brazil, 
also in the Western Pacific, but not found on the Pacific coast of North 
or South America. 
Etymology : Latin, Conger, the ancient name. 
The Conger eel is generally common in the warmer parts of the 
Atlantic and its islands. Our specimens are from Naples, Palermo, 
Paris, Havana, and Charleston. The young example in the National 
Museum from Cape San Lucas, assigned to this species by Jordan and 
Gilbert (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 378, 1882), belongs to Ophisoma baleari - 
cum. Of the forms called Leptoceplialus only three (L. gracilis Storer, 
from Massachusetts, and L. multimaculatus and L. peruanus Steindach- 
ner, from Peru) have been described from American waters. 
Leptoceplialus gracilis is doubtless (like L. morrissi) a young Couger. 
L. multimaculatus from Peru, a slender form with a sharp nose, we are 
unable to recognize from the description, as also the deep-bodied and 
band-shaped Leptoceplialus peruanus. We refer to these species for the 
