198 



CHAKACINID.E. 



bluish or greenish on the back ; pectoral and ventral fins sometimes 

 blackish. 



Total length 460 millim. 



Gaboon, Congo, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Mweru, Lake Bangwelii. 



1. Type. Gaboon. 



2. Ad. Tulagoiioa, Ogowe. Miss Kingslev (C). 



3. Ad. Ja River (('ongo System), G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



S. Cameroon. 



4. Ad. Ituri River (Aruwimi), R. B. Woosnam, Esq. (0.) ; 



near Irunia. Ruwenzori Expedition. 



Lake Tanganyika. Prof. J. E. S. Moore (C). 

 Kalambo, Lake Tanganyika. „ 



5. Ad. 

 G. Ad. 

 7. Ad. 

 8-9. Hgr. 



10-12. Ad. & hgr. 



13. Skel. 



14. Skin. 



15. Hgr. 

 16-17. Hot. 



Kituta, „ 



Mtondwe Bay, L. Tangan- 

 yika. 

 Niamkolo, L. Tanganyika. 



■>■) 11 



Lake Mweru. 



11 

 Lake Banowehi. 



Dr. AV. A. Cunnington (C). 



Sir A. Sharpe (P.). 

 Capt. Lemaire (C). 

 F. H. Melland, E,sq. (P.). 



4. ALESTES LIEBRECHTSIL 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mas. Congo, Zool. i. p. 29, pi. xv. (1898), and Poiss. Bass. Congo, 

 p. 152 (1901). 



Fig. 149. 







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Alestes liehrccldsii. 

 Type (A. M. C). ^. 



Depth of body i>\ to 4 times in total length, length of head 4^ to 5 

 times. Head 1 1^ to 2 times as long as broad, a little longer than deep ; 

 snout as long as eye, which is lateral and 3^ times in length of head ; 



