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double convex behind; median rays longest or 1^ in head; pectoral, 

 2; ventral left, 2f. Color in alcohol dull brownish on left side, 

 with many well scattered pale spots, none larger than scale exposure. 

 Right side uniform white. Length, 395 mm. S. 



A smaller example, 171 mm. long, from Sumatra, differs in the 

 scales having 18 to 20 basal striae, a condition doubtless due to 

 age. Its left or colored side is quite dark, also fins, and without 

 any pale spots. 



CYNOGLOSSUS GOREENSIS Steindachiier. 



Head, 5§ : depth, 3f ; D. 123 ; A. 94; scales, 30+94 in median lateral 

 line to caudal base; 15 scales above median lateral line at widest 

 part of body to upper lateral line, 24 below at same point; snout, 2§ 

 to lower eye; mouth cleft, 4. Contour evenlj' elongately ellipsoid. 

 Head width, 4| its length. Snout broadly depressed; profile nearly 

 complete semicircle. Eye small, about half of interorbital, and 

 upper half advanced before lower. Lower nostril close before upper 

 eye along mouth edge or about midway in mouth cleft. Upper 

 nostril midway between eyes. Mouth cleft on blind side more 

 curved than on colored side. Lips entire. Interorbital very 

 slightly depressed. Scales largest over median portion of trunk, 

 become small and crowded about borders, strongly ctenoid on left 

 or colored side and cycloid on right or blind side; basal striae about 

 40 to 44 and circuli only complete apically on blind side. Two 

 lateral lines, upper 8 scales from dorsal body edge. Caudal pointed, 

 If in head. Color in alcohol pale uniform brownish on left or 

 colored side; right side whitish. Length, 327 mm. S. 



6. ASHANTEE. 



The lishes from this country were aU obtained by the Eclipse Expe- 

 dition in the Beyah River at Elmina, or the vicinity of the latter. 

 Though a number of scattered references to the fishes of the Gold 

 Coast occur, the only work of primary fauna! interest is Bleeker's 

 celebrated "Memoire sur ies Poissons de la cote de Guinee." ' Giin- 

 ther described a few species in his paper on "New fishes from the 

 Gaboon and Gold Coast." - Sauvage ^ and Pellegrin * have both 

 published papers on the fishes of the adjacent lA'ory Coast, useful in 

 this connection. 



SCOLIODON EUMECES (Pietschmann). 



Body compressed, depth 8§ to 9| to last caudal vertebra. Head 

 depressed, 4^ to 5| in body; width 1§ to If its length. Snout greatly 

 depressed, long, end blunt, 2 to 2^ in head. Eye about eye-diameter 



1 Nat. Verhandel. HoU. Maats. Wet. Haarlem, vol. IS, 1863, No. 2, pp. 1-136, pis. 1-28. 



2 Ann. Mag. Nat. London, ser. 3, vol. 20, 1867, pp. 110-117. 

 J Bull. Soc. Zooi. France, 1882, pp. 313-325, pi. 5, fig. 1. 

 'Idem, vol. 38, 1913, pp. 151-158. 



