FRESH-WATER FISHES OF LIBERIA—SCHULTZ 305 
Diagnosis —Length of head 25.2 and 25.2; greatest depth 27.6 and 
30.8; length of snout 7.65 and 7.89; diameter of eye 8.96 and 8.93; 
postorbital length of head 9.40 and 9.38; least width of interorbital 
space 4.70 and 4.48; length from tip of snout to rear of maxillaries 
11.7 and 10.9; least depth of caudal peduncle 10.1 and 9.98; distance 
from base of last anal fin ray to midbase of caudal fin (length of 
caudal peduncle) 12.2 and 11.9; distance from tip of lower jaw (when 
mouth is opened so lower jaw is in line with axis of body) to rear of 
head 28.1 and 28.0; length of supramaxillary bone 6.22 and 6.25; snout 
to origin of dorsal 50.9 and 51.5; snout to origin of anal 75.0 and 
73.1; snout to insertion of pelvics 50.2 and 50.7; snout to insertion 
of pectoral 25.4 and 25.2; length of longest ray —, of dorsal — and 17.1; 
of anal — and 9.68; of pelvics 13.8 and 14.3; of pectoral — and 17.4; 
of caudal 25.9 and 26.8. Length of base of dorsal 14.5 and 15.0; length 
of base of anal 17.7 and 18.0. 
The following counts were made: Scales 45 and 44; transverse row 
at origin of dorsal 12 and 12; predorsal scales 17 and 17; dorsal rays 
ili, 14 and iii, 18; anal iii, 18 and ii, 17; pectoral 14 and 14; pelvic 
8 and 8; gill rakers 12+26 and 11+28; keeled scutes 18+10 and 
at 0: 
Body much compressed, its width about 14 its depth; abdomen 
sharp-edged; teeth on premaxillary in a single row, numbering 22, 
near lip, these teeth strong but none of them caninelike; teeth on 
dentary similar and in a single row, the posterior ones very small in 
a depression at side of lower jaw; maxillary with a broad expanded 
posterior part and a narrow shaft forward, the ventral border of 
the expanded part finely denticulate; supramaxillary with a narrow 
shaft forward; a single row of fine teeth along middle of tongue; a 
few teeth on the palatines; gill rakers long and slender; when the 
lower jaw is closed it projects a very little in front of snout but not 
beyond the forward-projecting teeth; when lower jaw is open it 
projects considerably in front of snout; origin of dorsal a very little 
closer to tip of snout than base of caudal fin and over base of pelvics; 
origin of anal fin 14 length of base of anal fin behind rear base of 
dorsal; length of head shorter than greatest depth of body by %4 
diameter of eye; caudal peduncle a little deeper than long; keeled 
scales on belly from isthmus to anal fin origin. 
Color.—A silvery lateral band, pigmented posteriorly and more or 
less continuing as blackish pigment in each lobe of the caudal fin; tip 
of snout and tip of lower jaw blackish. 
Listed here are 2 small clupeid fishes in a very poor state of pres- 
ervation, from Bromley, U. S. N. M. No. 118732, 21 and 28 mm. 
standard length, taken by Dr. Mann. These specimens appear to be 
close to the genus Pellonula. 
