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equals the longest spine of tlie dorsal. Caudal subtruncate, the 

 angles rounded, rays slightly produced beyond the connecting mem- 

 brane. Scales ciliated, those ou the back smaller than those on the 

 sides, 31 T 7 y ; lateral lines ^-f-. 



Colour (of preserved specimens), uniform dark brown, slightly 

 darker above than below ; one, or more, dark streaks from the eye 

 towards the preopercular border. 



One specimen, 94 mm. in length, from King Williams Town, Cape 

 Province. 



4. ANABAS MULTISPINIS, Peters. 



Ctenopoma nmltispinis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac., 1844, p. 34, Miiller's 

 Arch. f. Anat, u. Phys., 1846, p. 481, pi. x, figs. 10-15, and Eeise 

 Mossamb., iv, p. 16, pi. ii, fig. 3 (1868). 



? Anabas scandens, (lion Daldorf), Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mossamb., 

 p. 270 (1858). 



Spirobranclms smithii, Biaucoui, op. cit., p. 279, pi. x (1859). 



Ctenopoma multispine, Griinth., Cat. Fish., iii, p. 373 (1861). 



Anabas multispinis, Bouleng., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xvi, 

 1905, pp. 53, 646, Trans. Zool. Soc., xviii, 1911, p. 408, and Freshw. 

 Fish. Africa, p. 53, fig. 30 (1916). 



FIG. 160. Anabas multispinis. Type, after Peters (Eeise Mossamb.). 



Teeth in a villiform band on jaws, those of the outer row slightly 

 enlarged and curved ; in a narrow band on vomer and pa'atines. 

 Depth of body 3 to 3f times in total length excluding caudal, length 

 of head 3 to a little more than 3 times. Snout obtusely conical, 

 equals diameter of eye, which is 41 to 4!; times in length of head; 

 iuterorbital width 4 times in length of head ; maxillary reaches to 



