Of twelve leptocephali from the New Caledonia area, myotome counts, etc., firmly identify two as Anguilla megastoma, three as A. australis, one as A. obscura, but six, recognisable as long-finned larvae and associated with A. marmorata and A. reinhardti cannot be assigned definitely to either of these species. Two glass-eels from near Sydney are referred to A. australis ?australis on geographic grounds. Including the four Dana leptocephali of 1928-29 from the Southwest Pacific, the relative sizes suggest a breeding area east of New Caledonia.