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a. A. BOULENGER. 



Haplochilus myaposas f>p. n. (Text-fig. 2.) 

 Depth of body 4 to 4| times in total length, length of head 

 o^ to 4 times. Snont very short, truncate, Avith the lower jaw 

 ])rojecting ; eye longer than the snout, as long as or a little 

 shorter than postocular part of head ; interorbital space about 

 half length of head. Dorsal with 10 rays, originating above 

 anterior third of anal, nearer to root of caudal than to occiput ; 

 median rays longest, about half length of head. Anal with 14 

 or 15 rays, median longest, the fin rounded, like the dorsal. 

 Pectoral reaching a little beyond base of venti-al. Caudal 

 rounded, as long as head. Caudal peduncle once and 4- as long 

 as deep. Scales 27-28 in a longitudinal series, 16 round body in 



Text-fig. 2. 



front of ventrals. No latei-al line pits. Pale olive, with darker 

 edges to the scales ; fins greyish. 



Total length 28 millim. 



Four specimens from the Myaposa River, Zululand. 



This little Cyprinodontis is so closely allied to H. pumilus, 

 from Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria, that I have hesitated 

 before describing it as distinct. It differs, however, in having 

 the eye as long as, or but little shorter, than the postocular 

 part of the head and in having the dorsal and anal fins more 

 rounded, the median rays being the longest. 



Desckiption of the three new Reptiles. 



Z on urns warreni sp.n. (PI. XXXY.) 

 Head longer than broad, strongly depressed. Head-shields 

 rugose ; frontonasal as long as broad, forming a narrow suture 

 with the rostral, separating the nasals ; latter scarcely swollen ; 

 nostrils in the posterior part of the nasal ; prefrontals in con- 

 tact with their inner angles, or forming a short suture; frontal 



