HEMICHROMTS FASCIATUS. 115 



About the material in other Musea I got the follow- 

 ing informations : 



Prof. Hilgendorf at Berlin gave me , amongst other ones, 

 these remarks about the two type-specimens: »5 Querbin- 

 den ; weissliche Einfassung der Caudalis , oben und unteu 

 in ihren hinteren Drittel , ist sehr deutlich ; zwischen den 

 Querbindeu sind die Schuppen nicht durch Basisflecken 

 ausgezeichnet , wie ich es an anderen Exemplaren von 

 Liberia und Lagos sehe." 



Prof. Vaillant at Paris wrote to me, that he did not 

 observe white corners at the caudalis; on the sides of 

 the body he found 5 cross-bands. — Franceville, Upper 

 Ogowee. 



As the caudal fin of the single specimen in the Mu- 

 seum at Genoa is in bad condition , no informations about 

 its coloration could be given ; 5 cross-bands on the body. — 

 Congo River. 



Mr. Boulenger of the British Museum wrote to me: »I 

 may state that in Hemichr. fasciatus the white edge at the 

 corners of the caudal coexists with the dark vertical streak 

 on the side-scales below the lateral line, in specimens 

 examined by Dr. Günther (see Cat. of Fishes) as well as 

 in others received more recently." 



From the examination of the material , now in the Ley- 

 den Museum, follows that: 



1°. 3 specimens (see a of the enumeration, p. Ill) cor- 

 respond in every characteristic with the type-specimens of 

 Peters. 



2°. 25 specimens (see b — k of the enumeration, pp. Ill 

 and 112) have only the upper corner of the caudalis white 

 and the centre of side-scales black. 



So we see that, after the authors and the various Mu- 

 seum-material , the following short diagnoses of Hemi- 

 chromis fasciatus and its varieties can be given: 



Hemichromis fascAatus Peters. The edge of the lower and 

 upper corners of caudalis white , and the centre of side-scales 

 below the lateral line without a black centre. — Two type- 

 Notes from, the Leyden IMuseum , Vol. X"VI1. 



