AXAIUS. 



a I 



8. A.I. 



9-10. Ad. & ligr. 

 11. A.l. 

 12-14, 15. Ad. & h-r, 



IC. AJ. 



Lebu/i 1{. (i'biloango) 

 :it Kuka Muno. 



Banima, Lower Congo. 



JIanyanga, ,, 



Monsembe, Upiier 

 Congo. 



Upper ( 'ongo. 



Dr. \V. J. Aiisorge (C). 

 Capt. AVilverth (C). 

 lU'v. J. H. Weeks (P.). 

 Brussels Uuiversitv. 



riff. :{:!. 



Analms comjL'us. 

 Type. 



7. ANABAS CONGICUS. 



Ctenopoma coiifficum, Bouleng. Ann. it Mag. N. H. (5) xi.\. 188", p. 148. 

 Anahas congiciis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 242, Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. .'574 (I'-'Ol), and Ami. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. ].p. 22 it 51 (1902). 



Depth of body 2f to 3 times in total length, length of head 3 to 

 3^ times. Snout rounded, slioiter tiian eye, which is 3 (young) 

 to 3f times in length of head and nearly equals interorbital width ; 

 maxillary extending to below anterior border or anterior fourth of eye ; 

 no palatine teeth ; prasorbital, pnropercnlum, and interoperculum entire ; 

 suboperculum more or less strongly denticulate ; 4 or 5 spines above 

 and one below opercular notch. 7 or 8 very short gill-rakers on lower 

 jiart of anterior arch. Dorsal XVI-XVIl 8-9 ; last spine longest, 

 T to h length of head ; longest soft ravs ? to i length of head in females- 

 and young, produced and longer than head in males. Anal IX-Xl 

 'J-11, similar to dorsal. Pectoral nearly as long as head. Ventral 

 produced into a filament, reaching far beyond origin of anal. Caudal 

 rounded. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as deep as long, as long as eye. 

 Scales rngo.se, strongly ctenoid, 26-2S '^ ; lateral lines -iji'. Yellowish 



