ALESTES. 195 



2. ALESTES BAREMOSE. 



Salmo nlloticus (non Has^selq.)? Liiin. Syst. Nat. i. p. 514 (17(jG), 



Salmo dente.v, part., Linn. t. c. p. 531. 



M//letes hareinose, Joannis, Mag. Zool. 1835, iii. pi. vi. 



Mijletes hasselqnistii (non Cuv.), Guerin, Icon. R. An., Poiss. pi. Ivi. fig, 1 (1814). 



Alestes kotsdiyi, Heckel, Russegger's Reise Egypt, iii. p. 308,pLxxi. fig. 3 (1819) ; 



aUnth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 313 (1864), and Petlierick's Trav. ii. p. 242 (1809) ; 



Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixi. i. 1870, p. 543 ; Vincig. Ann. Mas. Gonova, (2) 



xix. 1898, p. 257. 

 Alestes ivyfsl, Steind. t. c. p. 512, pi. ii. fig. 1. 

 Alestes hareinose, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. TL (7) viii. 1901, p. 488 ; Werner, 



Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxv. i. 1900, p. 1120 ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 117, pi. xviii. 



fig. 2 (1907). 

 Alestes splendens, Werner, t. c. p. 1127. 



Depth of body 3f to oj times in total length, length of head 4 to o| 

 times. Head 2 to 2^ times as long as broad, 1^ to If tim9s as long as 

 deep ; snout rounded, as long as eye (shorter in young) ; eye lateral, 

 its diameter 3 (young) to 4 times in length of head ; adipose eyelid 

 well developed ; interorbital region very convex, its width 2f to o\ times 



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Alestes baremose. 

 Lower Nile (F. N.). 5. 



in length of head ; maxillary not reaching to below anterior border 

 of eye; 14 teeth (g) in upper jaw, 10 (^ in lower; lower border of 

 second suborbital longer than eye in adult. Gill-rakers rather long 

 and slender, closely set, 30-38 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 

 II 8, equidistant from vertical of last ray of vential and first of anal, or 

 a little nearer latter, equally distant from eye or occiput and from root 

 of caudal ; first branched ray longest, as long as or a little longer or a 



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