ALESTES. 



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arborescent or anastomosing canals, 20-33 ||, 2 between lateral line and 

 root of ventral. Silvery or pale golden, dark grey or brown on the 

 back ; sometimes a blackish spot above lateral line, behind gill-opening, 

 and another on caudal peduncle, sometimes extending as a streak alono- 

 median rays of caudal ; dorsal greyish, usually with a little pink or red ; 

 ventrals and anal white or yellow, usually Mdth a band of red ; caudal 

 red, orange, or yellow, the base and the edge blackish. 



Total length 230 millim. 



Lower Nile to Lake Victoria, Lake Rudolf, Chad Basin, West Africa 

 from the Senegal to Cameroon. — Type in Senckeuberg Museum, Frank- 

 fort (M.). 



1. Hgr. Girgeh, Lower Nile. L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



2-7, 8-15. Hgr. & yg. Near Luxor. 

 16-25. Hgr. & yg. Between Luxor and Assuan. 



2(3-35. A(\., lioT & Assuan. 



yg- 



36. Ad. 

 37-40. Hgr. 

 41-43. Ad., hgr., 



^ JS- 

 44, 45-47. Ad., hgr., 



& yg. 

 48-49. Ad. 

 50-54. Ad. & hgr. 

 55-57. Ad., types of 



A. rnppeU'ii. 



58. Skel. 



59. Ad. 

 60-63. Ad. 

 64-66. Hgr. 

 67-68. Hgr. 



Between Assuan and Shellal 

 Derr, Upper Nile. 

 Anebi, ,, 



Wady Haifa. 



Upper Nile. 

 Khartum. 



J. Petherick, Esq. (C), 



69. Ad. 



70. Hgr. 

 71-77. Ad. 



78. Ad. 



79-83. Ad. & hgr. 

 84. Ad. 

 85-89. Ad. 

 90-91. Ad. 



Wad Medine, Blue Nile. 

 Bosaires, „ 



Between Khartum and 



Sobat R. 

 Jebelain, White Nile. 

 Gharb-el-Aish, White Nile 

 Polkom,BaroR. (Sobat). 



Mouth o£ Lake No, White 



Nile. 

 Gondokoro, Bahr-el-Gebel. 

 Lake Victoria. 

 Entebbe, Lake Victoria. 

 Bunjako, ,, 



L. Loat, Esq. (CI). 



Capt. S. Flower (P.). 

 Mr. P. C. Zaphiro (C.) ; 



W. N. McMillan, Esq. (P. 

 L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



Mr. P. C. Zaphiro (C); 



W. N. McMillan, Esq. (P. 

 L. Loat, Esq. {V.). 



Col. Dehne Radchffe (P.). 

 Mr. E. Degen (C). 



