DISTICHODUS. 



277 



Red or reddish brown, belly silvery white ; 6 or 7 broad blackish 

 vertical bars on the body. 



Total length 210 niillim. 



Congo. 







J 





4y////''y 





+ ?^l(!> 



.^^ 





Ulstichodi's sexfascialiiy. 

 Xew Antwerp, f. 



1. Ad. Leopoldville, Stanley Pool. 



2. Ad. Coquilhatville, Upper Congo, 



3. Hgr. Kutu, Lake Leopold IL 



4. Ad. New Antwerp, Upper Congo. 



5. Hgr. Mousembe, „ 



6. Hgr. Up})er (Jonoo. 



7. Type. Stun ley Falls. 



Capt. Wilverth(C.). 

 M. P. Delhez (C). 



Capt. Wilverth (C). 

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

 Brussels University. 

 Hev. W. H. Px'ntley (C. 



17. DISTICHOUUS LUSOSSO. 



Schilthuis, Tijdschr. Ned. Dierk. Ver. (2) iii. 1891, p. DO ; Bouleng. Polss. Bass. 



Congo, p. 11)5 (1901). 

 Distichodus leptorhyin-Jius. Bouleng. Ann. k Mag. N. H, (G) xx. 1897, p. 42r. 



Depth of body 2-^- to l>^ times in total length, length of head 3 to 

 8^ times. Head 1|- to 1^ times as long as deep, 2^ to 3 times as long as 

 broad; snout roundt-d, not compressed, longer than deep, its length greater 

 than interorbital width, H to 2^ diameters of eye, which is 4 to G times 



