NO. 2294. FISHES FROM WEST AFRICA— FOWLER. 269 



Boulenger has reported the extensive Ansorge collections.^ The 

 Eclipse expedition obtained material at Loando (Sao Paulo de 

 Loanda) ; also the Quanza River, some at Cunga. 



SARDINELLA AUKITA (Valenciennes). 



Head, 3 J to 3f ; depth, 3i to 3|; D. iii, 15, rarely 14 or 16; A. 

 II, 15 to 18, occasionally 19; scales 42 to 47 in median lateral count 

 to caudal base and 4 to 6 more on latter; 14 scales transversely, 

 seldom 13 or 15; ventral scutes, 17, sometimes 18 or 19 + 14, some- 

 times 15 or 16; snout, 3^ to 3| in head, measured from upper jaw- 

 tip; eye, 3f to 4-|; maxillary, 2^ to 2f ; interorbital, 3f to 4|. Head 

 width about half its length. Snout with preorbital adipose-like, 

 width li to IJ its length. Eye with broad adipose-Hds; hind pupil 

 edge about midway in head length. Maxillary to pupil, or about 

 first third in eye; expansion, 1^ to 1|. Median patch of fine teeth 

 on tongue. Interorbital very slightly convex, or level medially. 

 Rakers about 95 to 130 + 130 to 175, very fine or slender; about 

 long as snout and filaments about three-fourths to seven-eighths of 

 rakers. Color in alcohol with back dull olive-slaty; sides of head 

 and trunk pale brassy. Fins brownish; pectoral with upper rays 

 whitish, and caudal tips usually dusky to blackish; also origin and 

 first two simple dorsal rays blackish. No dark spots on opercle 

 edge. End of snout and mandible brownish. Length, 222 to 267 

 mm. Eight examples from Loando, besides two previously men- 

 tioned from Cape de Verde Islands. 



The species exhibits variation in many respects, as in some exam- 

 ples the pectoral reaches three-fourths to ventral; in others two- 

 thirds; striae on cheek numerous or sometimes obsolete; ventral 

 longer or shorter, etc. 



ETHMALOSA DOKSALIS (Valenciennes). 



Head, 2| to 3; depth, 2f to 2^; D. in, 13 or 14, occasionally 15; 

 A. II, 19, occasionally 17 or 18; scales in median lateral series from 

 shoulder to caudal base, 37 to 42, and 4 or 5 more on latter; scales 

 transversely to ventral keel 18, vary sometimes 16 to 19; ventral 

 scutes, 16, sometimes 17 + 11 to 13; snout, 4 to 4f in head; eyes 

 5 to 5f ; maxillary, 2| to 2f ; interorbital, 3^ to 4. Five example, 

 from Loando and two from Sierra Leone at Freetown previously 

 listed. Length, 286 to 323 mm. 



The young Gabun examples have rakers about 38 + 90, while in 

 the adults they are about 58 + 125. 



CLARIAS GARIEPINUS (Burchell). 



Head, 3f to 4f ; depth, 6t to 8; D. 66 to 73; A. 50 to 61; snout, 

 2f to 3i in head, measured to hind edge of gill-opening; mouth 



1 Ann. Mag. Nat. London, ser. 7, vol. 15, 1905, pp. 457-459; ser. 7, vol. 17, 1906, pp. 110-112; ser. 7, vol. 

 18, 1906, pp. 347-348; ser. 7, vol. 20, 1907, pp. 108-109; ser. 8, vol. 6, 1910, pp. 537-561. 



