Five specimens of anguillid leptocephali were collected in the eastern Indian Ocean by the T. S. Kagoshima Maru, Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University, in May 1977. Close examination revealed that four of the larvae were the short-finned eel, Anguilla bicolor bicolor McClelland, and one was the long-finned eel, A. nebulosa nebulosa McClelland. This is the second record from the sea after the collection by the Dana expedition in September-November 1929. The capture location of the larvae extends the distributional range of the eels in the Indian Ocean.