MU. F. DA.Y ON NOUFOLK EELS. 
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Colours. — Eronzc, shot with green superiorly, muddy-white 
heneatli : the anal fin with a narrow light edge ; pectoral variegated 
with black. 
This specimen agrees with Kaup’s description of specimens from 
Maples in the Paris Museum, and which he named as above, and 
thouglit might be “a ^Marine Eel, or one which lives in the mouths 
of rivers.” I have not been able to find any examples of this 
form in the ]}riti.sh Museum Collection ; while in the ‘ Catalogue ’ it 
is ])laced as a synonym to A. vulgaris. 
{!)) ^lorc elongated snouts and higher dorsals. 
3. Anguilla latirostris, Yarrell. ‘ Proc. Zool. Society,’ 1831, 
E.xtreme length 
... 
21-0 
inches. 
Length of body to vent 
. . . 
lOO 
n 
Length of tail ... 
. . • 
11-0 
n 
Length of head to gill-opening 
2-4 
u 
Diameter of eye 
t . . 
0-3 
Eyes from end of snout 
0-4 
>> 
Eyes apart 
0-4 
n 
From snout to dorsal fin 
• . • 
7-0 
l>ody very thick, nearly as wide as high; snout broad; lips 
thick and well developed ; angle of mouth placed beneath the 
hind thinl of the eye ; lower jaw prominent. 
Teeth . — Of uniform size. 
Fins . — The dorsal commences 3 inches anterior to the vertical 
from the origin of the anal. Height of longest dorsiil ray 0’6 inch ; 
of longest anal i-ay 0'5 inch. Length of pectoral fin 0'9 inch. 
Colours . — Muddy pea-green superiorly, becoming of a muddy- 
white below. 
Sex. — •Female, and apparently sterile. 
In this form the cleft of the mouth is not quite so far back, nor 
the snout <\uite so broad as is commonly seen in the “ broad-nosed” 
or glut-eel," with which it generally agrees. 
