ELEOTEIS. 



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head. Cuiulal peduncle twice as long as deep. Scales strongly ciliated, 

 29 or 30 in longitudinal series, 9 between second dorsal and auiil. 

 Greyish olive, dotted and marbled with blackish ; vertical dark bars on 

 sides of head; a black bar at base of caudal ; dorsal, anal, and caudal 

 with small blackish spots. 



Total length 38 niillim. 



Upper Nile, "White Nile, and Shari. 



1. Type. PonJ near Tliinl Cataract, N. of L. Loat, H-q. (('.). 



Keniioli. 

 2-3. llgr. Faslioda. \\'h\ic Niio. 



4. Ad. L. No, 



5-7. Ilur. 



11. 



Fig. 8. 



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Eleoiris imna. 

 Type (Y. N.). x 



King, E<(i. (l\) 



r.. ELEOTRIS UELLEXSI8. 

 Bouleng. Rev. Zuol. Afr. ii. lOi:'.. p. ll',]. 



Body cylindrical or a little compressed, its depth 4] to 4| times in 

 total length, length of head 3^ to 3^ times. Head a little longer than 

 broad, naked ; snout broad, rounded, as long as eye, the diameter of 

 which is 4i times in length of head and equals interorbital width ; 

 lower jaw strongly projecting; maxillary extending to below anterior 

 border of eye; no canine teeth; no pneopercular spine. Dorsals V I, 

 I 8, well separated from eacli other, rays short. Anal I o, its origin 

 considerably behind that of dorsal. Pectoral | length of head, a little 

 longer than ventral. Caudal rounded-subacuminate, nearly as long as 

 head. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. Scales strongly ciliated, 

 30-32 in longitudinal series, 10 between dorsal and anal ; belly naked. 

 Yellowish, spotted and speckled with dark brown ; a blackish bar at 

 base of caudal, which bears transverse scries of brown dots ; black spots 

 on dorsal and anal tins. 



