ELKOTIMS. 



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1. Tvpc. 



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Aiiffola. 

 2. Ad. Bengo R. at Quifansoiido. Angola. Dr. W. J. Ansorgo ((".). 



3-4. All. Benito 1?.. S|);inisli (xuinca. 



G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



14. ELEOTUIS FUSCA. 

 Pa>cilia t'lLtca, Bloch, Sclineid. S\>t. Iclitliyol. p. 4.'):5 (1801). 

 Cheilodipterus culitis, Hani. Buclian. Fish. Ganges, p. 55, pi. v. tig. 10 ( l)S2i'). 

 j:ieotrls nh/m, Quoy & CJaini. Voy. Uraii. Pliysic, Zool. p. 259, pi. Ix. fig. 2 



(1824) ; Cuv. & Val. Hist. I'oiss. xii. p. 2;$;5 (1837); Bleek. Verb. Batav. 



Gen. XXV. no. 4, lS5;i, p. Id."), pi. i. lig. o. 

 JRleoti-is mauridaniis, Benn. Pme. Conini. Zool. Soe. i. 18.'U, p. inO. 

 C'ohitis pctrifica, Forst. Descr. Anini. p. 235 (1<S44). 

 Ciiliiis n'nier, Bleek. Nat. Tijdsclir. Nederl. Ind. xi. 185C, p. 411. 

 ? Eleotris forndiuiii. Bianconi, Spee. Zool. Mosanib. p. 267, pi. viii. (1858). 

 Eleotns fusca, Giinth. Cat. Fisli. iii. ].. 125 (18t;i) ; Playf. & Giintli. Fish. 



Zanzib. p. 74 (18G6) ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 313, pi. Ixv. fig. 7 (187r)) ; Giinth. 



Fische Siidsee, ii. p. 188 (1877) ; Saiiv. Hist. Madag., Foiss. p. 381, pi. xli. a. 



fig. 1 (1891) ; Pfeff. Thievw. O.-Afr.. Fische, p. 7 (189r)). 

 Ciil'nis fufrm, Bleek. Veisl. Ak. Anisierd. xiv. 18i;2, ji. Ill, and (2) xi. 1877, 



p. 42. 

 Eh'otvi.< noareii, Playf. it (;iitilli. i. e. p. 74. pi. ix. lig. 4. 

 Kleolris Ihiuzlnmrl. PIVtl'. .lalirl.. Ihnnl.. \VIv~. An-t. x. 2. 1S03, p. M. pi. 



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KI,iitrisJ'ii.fiV. 

 Tvpe of AT. J,-hn,:in;ferl. ;ifter Pfeffer (7. <•.). ^■. 



Body feebly compressed, its deptli 4 to 4| times in total length ; 

 length of head 3 to 3^ time.';. Head longer than broad, scaly except 

 on the snout ; a groove on each side behind the eye ; snout broad, 

 rounded, as long as or a little longer than eye, which is i^ (young) to 7 

 times in knigth of head. 1 to 2 times in interorbital width ; lower jaw 

 projecting; maxillary extending to below centre or posteri(U- third of 



