THE FISHES OF THE UNITED STATES ECLIPSE EXPE- 

 DITION TO WEST AFRICA. 



By Henry W. Fowler, 



0/ the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The collections on which this paper is based are primarily con- 

 tained in the United States National Museum. The first and most 

 extensive is that obtained by the United States Eclipse Expedition 

 to West Africa in 1889, with William Harvey Brown as naturalist. 

 Collections of fishes were secured by this expedition at the Azores, 

 Cape de Verde Islands, Ascension Island, Sierra Leone, Ashantee, 

 Angola, and Cape Town. An interesting collection was received 

 from Rolla P. Currie and a few specimens from Messrs. O. F. Cook 

 and G. N. Collins, collected in Liberia. 



I have further included several sm.all collections from Liberia and 

 the French Kongo, long in the Museum of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia. Dr. J. P. Moore sent a few from the 

 French Kongo, from the Biological School of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, and others were sent, through Capt. C. F. Silvester, from 

 Princeton University, obtained in Kamerun. These are all indicated 

 under their respective captions, where reference is given at the 

 beginning of the principal faunal papers. 



Five imperfectly-known species are figured, together with the 

 following, which appear to be new : 



Julis azorensis. 



Ahudefduf ascensionis. 



Mormyrus goheeni. 



Labeo curriei. 



Tilapia savagei. 



Eutropius eclipsis. 



Caranx angolensis. 



The types representing these species are all in the United States 



National Museum. In further explanation of the figures all the new 



forms are drawn from the types, and the others in the National 

 Museum are: 



Belone trachura Valenciennes. 42150. 



Liosaccus cutaneus (Giinther). 42143. 



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