ALESTES. 



221 



ventral. Olive-brown above, silvery beneath, often tinged with pink ; 

 a more or less distinct blackish blotch at base of caudal. 



Total length 260 millim. 



Congo, Lake Bangwelo. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1. Type. 



2. Type. 

 ','>. Yg. 



4. Ad.* 



5. Ad. 



6. Ad. 



Lower Cono-Q. 

 Jbali, Lake Leopold IT. 

 I'olobo, Upper Congo. 

 Monsembe, ,, 

 Near Iruiini, Itnri R. 



Lake Baiifrwelu. 



M. F. Hens (C). 

 M. P. Delhez (C). 

 Rev. G. Gr en fell (P.). 

 Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). 

 R. B. Woosnam, Esq. (C); 



Ruwenzori Expedition. 

 F. H. Melland, Esq. (P.). 



24. ALESTES BATESII. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 1903, p. 435. 



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

 times. Head If to 2 times as long as broad, longer than deep, distance 

 between end of snout and occiput not or but slightly exceeding width of 

 head; snout as long as or longer than diameter of eye, wdiich is 3 to 4 



Fig. 166. 



Alestes batesii. 

 Type. |. 



times in length of head ; adipose eyelid indistinct ; interorbital width 

 about half length of head; maxillary not extending to below anterior 



8 or 6\ in upper javt', 10 (|) in lower; 

 length of lower border of second suborbital equalling or exceeding 



* The ventral fins are entirely absent in this specimen. 



