NO, 2294. 



FISHES FROM WEST AFRICA— FOWLER. 



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about midway in pectoral. Least depth of caudal peduncle, 2f to 

 3J in head. Head oblong, front profile rather convex, well inclined. 

 Eye high, within bulge and close to upper profile. Mouth inferior, 

 broad, lower Jaw shorter. Maxillary to hind eye edge. Lips wide. 

 Row of fine pectinate teeth in each jaw, very numerous and uniform. 

 Lower jaw only witli long slender canine each side. Interorbital 

 shallowly convex. Rakers about 14 weak points one-third of 

 filaments and latter H in eye. Supraorbital tentacle about two- 

 thirds of eye and front nasal tentacle about half as long. Dorsals 

 nearly separated, first spine, 2^ in head; third dorsal ray, 1|; third 

 anal ray, 2J; caudal, IJ; pectoral, 1; ventral, I3. Color brownish 

 generally with about 14 rather obscure vertical brownish bands 

 which have row of several whitish dots, usually about three with 

 median about midway in body depth. Several browish spots on 

 side of head. Two large black blotches, first smaller and embraces 

 pectoral origin, edges of both whitish. Dark bars on trunk reflected 



Fig. 6.— Alticus textilis (Valenciennes). 



on dorsals obliquely up backward. Caudal with four dark transverse 

 bands. Anal brownish, edge dusky. Pectoral pale brown, with 

 broad deep brown basal band and another parallel on prepectoral. 

 Iris whitish. Two examples, 63 to 65 mm. 



4. Freetown, Sierra Leone. 



No faunal papers have appeared and the species described from 

 the colony are mostly scattered through the works of Giinther and 

 Boulenger. The fresh-water fauna is little known. The marine 

 fauna may be understood in conjunction with the extensive papers 

 by Pellegrin and ^ Steindachner ^ relative to the Senegal region, 

 and Klaptocz ^ relative to French Guinea. Pellegrin also described 



> Bull. Soc. Zool., Fraiice, 1905, pp. 135-141; 1907, pp. 83-89; 1911, pp. 182-186; 1913, pp. 116-118.— Actes 

 Soc. Linn, Bordeaux, 1903, pp. 15-57, pi. 3; 1907, pp. 71-103. — Annals L'Inst. Ocfeanogr., Prince do Monaco, 

 vol. 6, fasc. 4, 1914, pp. 1-100, pis. 1-2. 



2 Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. 60 (1), 1809, pp. 669-715, 945-996; vol. 61 (l), 1870, pp. 533-583. ' 



•'Zool. .Tahrbuch. Syst., 1913, pp. 279-290. 



