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CIIARACIXID.E. 



23. ALESTES GRANDISQUAMI.S. 



Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. S'), pi. xxxv. fig. 3 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 1.59 (1901). 



Depth of body 3J to 4 times in total length, length of head of to 4^ 

 times. Head IJ to If times as long as broad, a little longer than deep, 

 its width a little less than its length to occiput in the adult ; snout 

 feebly projecting beyond lower jaw, as long as or a little longer than 

 eye, which is infero-lateral and 3 to 4 times in length of head ; adipose 

 eyelid very feebly developed ; interorbital region feebly convex, J to f 

 length of head ; maxillary fiir from reaching anterior border of eye ; IG 



8- 10 8 



or 18 ('g-J teeth in upper jaw, 10 (^) in lower ; lower border of second 

 suborbital as long as or a little longer than eye. Gill-rakers moderately 

 long, 15-10 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal II 8, opposite 



Fig. 165. 



Alestes (/randisquamis. 

 Type(A. M. C.)*. 4. 



middle of space between ventrals and anal, much nearer caudal than 

 occiput, its longest ray | to | length of head. Anal 111 10-11. 

 Pectoral a little shorter than head, not reaching ventral. Caudal forked. 

 Caudal peduncle scarcely longer than deep. Scales with numerous 

 anastomosing canals, 23-27 ot^^, 1 or 2 between lateral line and root of 



* The adipose fin was iiiadvortently left out by the artist in the original figure. 



