The Freshwatfi- /-'/V/rs <>/ Month Africa. 559 



Anal ii 7; caudal emarginate ; caudal peduncle a little longer than 

 deep. 



Colour (of preserved specimens) dark olive-brown above, with darker 

 spots and marblings, pale yellowish beneath, sometimes with more or 

 less distinct large transverse yellowish spots on back ; fins light, with 

 dark transverse streaks or spots ; caudal black at the base, with a 

 large blackish blotch on each lobe. 



Three specimens, 25 mm., 45 mm., 80 mm. in length respectively, 

 from Zululand (Mr. H. W. Bell-Marley). 



Our specimens differ in some minor respects from the species 

 described as A. longirostris by Boulenger, but this is probably 

 owing to their small size. 



The species has been described from South Cameroon. 



[Since this was in type we have learned that Bouleuger has received 

 specimens from Krantzkloof, Natal, representing a new species which 

 he calls Amphilius natalensis. It is doubtful that these specimens 

 should prove to be specifically identical with those we describe 

 under the name of Amphilius lontj!m.-</r!s, the differences being very 

 considerable. 



Page 463. After Synddontis iinn'roxtitjimt, Blgr., insert : 

 *SYNODONTIS LEOPARDINUS, Pellegr. 



Pellegr.,Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxxix, 1914, p. 25 ; Bouleiig., Freshw. 

 Fish. Africa, iv, p. 320 (1916). 



" Depth of body 3J times in total length, length of head a little 

 more than 3 times. Head 1^ times as long as broad, granulate above ; 

 snout rounded, considerably longer than postocular part of head ; eve 

 supero-lateral, 7| times in length of head, 2-} times in interorbital 

 width ; lips moderately developed ; premaxillary teeth forming a 

 rather broad band, in six transverse series ; movable mandibular teeth 

 -f diameter of eye, 21 in number. Maxillary barbel feebly margined 

 at base, | length of head, not reaching base of pectoral ; mandibular 

 barbels strongly branched, outer H times as long as inner. Gill- 

 opening not extending downwards beyond base of pectoral spine. 

 Occipito-nuchal shield granulate like the occiput, scarcely longer than 

 broad, posterior processes pointed. Humeral process granulate, a 

 little longer than broad, obtusely pointed, extending nearly as far back 

 as occipito-nuchal process. Dorsal i 7 ; spine a little longer than 

 head, not striated, smooth in front, feebly serrated behind. Adipose 

 dorsal 3f times as long as deep, as long as its distance from rayed 



