32 (loiniD.K. 



licad. Ventral with a broad basal membrane, terminating at a great, 

 distance from vent. Candal rounded, shorter than head. Caudal 

 peduncle If to 1| times as long as deep. Scales strongly ciliated, 

 61-70 in longitudinal series, 14-16 in transverse series between dorsal 

 and anal. Yellow, with small crimson or purplish-brown spots and 

 dots, some of which may form a regular lateral series, or be confluent 

 into cross-bars on the back, or form two oblique series or lines 

 directed forwards from the eye to the mouth ; dorsal and caudal spotted 

 with crimson or jjurplish brown ; [icctoral sometimes with crimson 

 cross-bars. 



Total length 15-j millim. 



Fresh waters of ^Vest Africa, from Sierra Leone to Angola.— Types in 

 Berlin Museum. 



V\g. IS. 





Goliius (juiiicenHs. 

 Cliiloanso. 



1-.3. Ad. & ligr. 



4-5. Ad. 



(5-13. Hgr. & yg. 

 11-15. Yg. 

 ID. Hgr. 

 17-20. Hgr. 

 21-30. Hgr. & yg. 

 3l-:}2. Hgr. 

 33-3-1. Ad. 

 3r)-37. Ad. & ligr. 



N. Slierbo district. Sierra 



Leone. 

 Tmiio K., Gold Coast. 

 Agberi, Lower Niger. 

 Abo, ,. 



Assay, „ 



Benito R.. Spanish Guinea. 

 Kondo-Koiulo, Ogowe. 

 Lambarene, „ 



Cliiloango Town. 

 Bengo H. at QuiCangondo, 



An^ioia. 



N. AV. Thomas Esq. (P.). 



Dr. H. (i. F. Spurreli (P.). 

 Dr. AV. J. Ansorgc ((".). 



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

 jMiss Kingsley (C). 

 Dr. W. .]. Ansorge (('.). 



12. GOBIUS SAMBERAXEXSIS. 

 Bleek. Areli. Noerl. ii. 18t;7, \k 417, and IVi^s. Madag. p. 57, id. xix. fig. 2 



(1875); Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 355, i>l. xxxix. fig. 5 (l-SUl). 

 ?Gol>iiis cenjeri, Bleek. II. ec. pp. 4 IS. 58. \n. xi.\. fig. 1. 



liodv cvlindrical ; depth of body -3 to nearly G times in total length, 



