Abstract. We consider N -parameter reductions of the Benney moment equations. These were shown in Gibbons and Tsarev (1996 Phys. Lett. A 211 19, 1999 Phys. Lett. A 258 263 ) to correspond to N −parameter families of conformal maps and to satisfy a particular system of PDE. A specific known example of this, the (N = 2) elliptic reduction (L Yu and J Gibbons 2000 Inverse Problems 16 605 ) is described. We then consider an analogous reduction for a genus 2 hyperelliptic curve (N = 3). The mapping function is given by the inversion of a 2nd kind Abelian integral on the Θ−divisor. This is found explicitly following a method given by Enolskii, Pronine and Richter (2003 J. Nonlinear Science 13 157).