AXAHAS. 



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lung, as long as eye. Scales rugose, strongly ctenoid, 2-)-30 y_i,j; lateral 

 lines V"!?. Brownish or olive, with G to 9 more or less distinct dark 

 cross-bands ; young witli a round blackish spot at base of caudal. 



Total length To millini. 



South Cameroon to Congo. 



l-C. All. & li-rr. 



7-11. All. & hgr. 

 \2-\C>. Ad. & hgr. 

 17-ll>. All. & yg. 



20-24. Ad. 

 2.^-Jt]. Tvpos. 

 21. Ad. 

 28. All. 



2'.l-3n. Ad. 

 :U-:i2. Ad. it ligr. 

 ■.V.\. Ad. 

 :'.(. Ad. 



Kiil)i U., S. ( 'amcrooii. 

 ydiiia ( 'iiiiiiiry, ., 

 K.vdiig li.. 



at Akoiioliiiga, S. 

 ( 'amci'ODii. 

 Ja H.. S. Cameroon, 

 (laliooii. 



T.andiarone, Ogowe. 

 Liiiili H., Upper Congo. 



Avakuhi, Ainwiini. 

 Haiizyvillo, Ul)angln. 

 I'lingii, Uelle. 

 Hrtwc'cn \v(An and Alia. TJclK' 



G. L. Bates, E«i. (C). 



Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 

 M. M. Storms (C.) ; 



Bru><s('ls Museum (P.). 

 Dr. ('. Christy (C). 

 Capt. Hoyaux (C). 

 ( 'apt. Huteroan (('.). 



Pig. \^o. 



Analias <nisort/{i. 

 Type (A. M. C). 



W. AXABAS AXSOHGII. 

 Biud.-iig. Ann. Mus. Congci; Zool. ii. p. 2:i, pi. xvii. fig. 7 (1912). 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 3A to 3^ times in total length. 

 Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is of to 4 times in 

 length of head and equals or a little exceeds intcrorbital width ; 

 maxillary extending to below anterior fourth of eye ; no palatine teeth ; 

 prECorbital pneoperculum, interoperculum, and suboperculum entire ; 

 2 to 5 small spines above and one below opercular notch. 7 or 8 very 

 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVIl-XVIII 

 7 ; last spine lonce>t. .', length of head : median soft ray produced into 



