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The following specimens have been examined : 
U.S.N.M. No. 48522, 20 specimens, 26 to 63 mm., St. Pauls River (from a creek), 
R. P. Currie. 
U.S.N.M. No. 48523, 6 specimens, 37 to 53 mm., St. Pauls River (from a creek), 
R. P. Currie. 
U.S.N.M. No. 48524, 3 specimens, 49 to 55 mm., St. Pauls River (from a creek), 
R. P. Currie. 
U.S.N.M. No. 118841, 67 specimens, 21 to 66 mm., Gibi Mountain, 900 feet eleva- 
tion, W. M. Mann. 
U.S.N.M. No. 118842, 6 specimens, 24 to 39 mm., Bellyella, W. M. Mann. 
U.S.N.M. No. 1188438, 68 specimens, 28 to 64 mm., Bromley, W. M. Mann. 
U.S.N.M. No, 118844, 13 specimens, 31 to 58 mm., Bendaja, W. M. Mann. 
U.S.N.M. No. 118845, 7 specimens, 31 to 53 mm., Harbel, W. M. Mann. 
M.C.Z., 19 specimens, 14 to 47 mm., Du River, Firestone Plantation No. 3, 
July 1926, G. M. Allen. 
EPIPLATYS CHAPERI (Sauvage) 
Haplochilus chaperi SAvVAGE, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, p. 823, pl. 5, fig. 5, 1882.— 
Bou.encer, Fresh-water fishes Africa, vol. 8, p. 56, fig. 41, 1914 (Liberia). 
The National Museum collections contain the following specimens: 
U.S.N.M. No. 47751, 1 specimen, 22 mm., Monrovia, 
U.S.N.M. No. 118847, 1 specimen, 24 mm., Harbel, about 40 miles inland from 
Monrovia. 
Family CICHLIDAE 
KEY TO THE CICHLIDS OF LIBERIA (SEE TABLE 4) 
la. Teeth simple in one or more rows, the inner row or rows sometimes ir- 
regular, or absent. 
2a. No fleshy pad or swelling at anterior base of upper half of first gill arch; 
a few canines at tip of upper jaw; single inner row of teeth, sometimes 
irregular ; gill rakers simple. 
3a. Dorsal rays XIII or XIV, 9 to 11; anal III, 7 or 8; gill rakers 2 or 
3+7 or 8; scales 24 to 27, 344 above lateral line and 9 below it; 
4 rows of scales on cheek; the greatest width of naked area on 
preopercle 6 to 8 in postorbital part of head; the latter is contained 
0.8 time in depth of caudal peduncle; least depth of caudal peduncle 
equals its length from base of anal to midbase of caudal fin rays; 
about 9 scales in posterior lateral line; the latter about 1.9 in the 
head; a black opercular spot and two other large black spots on sides; 
the last at base of caudal fin rays; sometimes lengthwise rows of 
small spots anteriorly on head and back. 
Hemichromis bimaculatus Gill 
3b. Dorsal rays XIII-XV, 11 or 12; anal rays III, 8 or 9; gill rakers 3 to 
5+7 or 8; scales 28 or 29, 4 from origin of spiny dorsal to lateral 
line, and 9 from origin of anal fin to anterior lateral line; 5 rows 
of scales on the cheek; the greatest width of naked area on preop- 
ercle contained 5 to 6 times in the postorbital part of the head; 
postorbital part of head equals depth of caudal peduncle, and the 
latter is contained 1144 times in its length; about 11 scales in pos- 
terior lateral line; the latter contained 1144 to 1% in the head; 5 
