112 HEMICHROMIS FASCIATUS. 



St. Paul's River, Liberia. Büttikofer and Sala 

 coll., 1880. 



g. N°. 5226. 2 spec, length 150 and 195 mM. Farming- 

 ton River, Liberia. Stampfli coll., 1887. 



li. N°. 5227. 1 spec, length 202 mM. Junk River, Liberia. 

 Stampfli coll., 1884. 



i. N°. 5228. 2 spec, length 87 and 120 mM. Roberts- 

 port , Grand Cape Mount River, Liberia. Büt- 

 tikofer and Sala coll., 1881. 



h. N". 5229. 3 spec, length 32, 33 and 60 mM. Mahfa 

 River, Liberia. Demery coll., 1889. 



The literature about this matter consists of: 



Peters, Monatsber. Kön. Preuss. Ak. Wiss., 1857, p. 403. 

 Gill, Oq the West-African genus Hemichronm , Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sciences Philad., 1862, p. 134. 

 Günther, Cat. of Fishes, T. IV, p. 274. 

 Bleeker, Mémoire sur les Poissons de la Cóte de Guinee, Nat. 



Verb. Holl. Maatsch. Wet. Haarlem , 1863, p. 38, pi. V, fig. 1. 

 Steindachner , Zur Fischfauna des Senegal, SB. Akad. Wien. 



Math. Naturw. Cl. Bd. LX, 1869, p. 970. 

 Sauvage , Faune ichth. de TOgóoué, Nouv. Arch, du Museum, 



Ser. II, T. III, 1880, p. 35. 

 Rochebrune, Faune de la Sénégambie , Actes d. 1. Soc. Linn. 



Bordeaux, 1882, pp. 135 et 136. 

 Perugia, Intorno ad alcuni pesci raccolti al Congo, Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, T. XXX, 1890-91, p. 971. 

 Steindachner, Die Fische Liberia's, Notes Leyd. Mus., vol. 



XVI, 1894, p. 47. 



The description given by Peters mentions : » dorso fus- 

 coviridis, lateribus abdomineque argenteus, fasciis trans- 

 versis fuscis sex , macula operculari nigra ; pinna dorsali et 

 anali oblique fasciatis, albomarginatis ; pinna caudali supra 

 infraque albomarginata; pinnis ventralibus externe fuscis, 

 Dentes medii duo superiores longiores, inferiores medii 

 quatuor breviores. 



D. y,^ ('%,), A. 3/^, (Vo), Lin. lat. 28. 



Africa occidentalis , Guinea. Pel coll." ^) 



1) All the fishes sent by Pel to the Leyden Museum about the year 1850, 

 Notes from the I^eyden IMuseum, Vol. XVII. 



