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9 a. Haplochilus fasciolatus. 

 D. 11. A. 18. V. 6-7. L. lat. 28. L. transv. 9-10. 



The height of the body is a little less than the length of the head, 

 and one-fourth of the total (without caudal). Head rather elongate, 

 much depressed anteriorly, the snout being longer than the eye, the 

 diameter of which is somewhat more than one-fourth of the length 

 of the head, and one-half of the width of the interorbital space. 

 Lower jaw a little longer than upper. Origin of the dorsal fin mid- 

 way between the extremity of the caudal and the eye, corresponding 

 to the seventeenth scale of the lateral line, and being rather before 

 the middle of the anal. Pectoral fin extending somewhat beyond the 

 root of the ventral, which reaches the vent. Brownish, each scale 

 with a red spot at the base, disappearing in preserved specimens ; 

 the lower parts of the sides of the abdomen and tail with eight or 

 nine oblique narrow brownish -black streaks, descending from the 

 middle of the side forwards. Vertical fins with purple spots, dorsal 

 and anal with a light basal band. 



Sierra Leone ; Upper NUe. 



a-e. From 1| to 3 inches long. Sierra Leone. Presented by Dr. A. 



Gimther. 

 /. One inch long. Upper Nile. From Consul Petherick's Collection. 



