ANABAS. 



CI 



Pectoral as loiij:: as head. Ventral produced into a iilamcnt, reaching 

 tilth or sixth anal spine. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle merely in- 

 dicated, kjcales rugose and strongly ctenoid, 21-'2S j, ; lateral lines ^^i\'- 

 lU'ovvnish, with G or 7 regular dark hars with wavy edges, wider than 

 the interspaces; spinous dorsal and anal edged with blackish, the 

 former with several oblique daik streaks ; outer halt of ventrals black. 

 Total leuirth 79 millini. 



Congo. 



1-:!. Tvpcs. 

 4. A.I. 



Monsenilic. U|>i'cr ('oiigo. 

 ]5oiii:i. ].(i\v('r ( 'onyo. 



li.v. J. II. Weeks (P.). 

 Mr..). Paul ArnoM (P.). 



Vhr. 'AT. 



* -> / y y 



sZ^-f" 



AiiuIkih pctlicrlel. 

 Type (F. N.). |. 



11. A.XAIiAS l'l']THEUICr. 

 Cleuopoma pelhcric!, jKirt., Giiiitli. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (;{) xiii. 1864, p. 211, xx. 



]8f.7, p. 110, ami Petheriek's Trav. ii. p. l'()8, pl. i. fig. A (l.StJD). 

 Anabas jyetherici, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. X. H. (7) iii. 1891), p. 21i), and Fish. 



Nile. p. 442, pl. Ixxxiii. fig. 1 (iyu7) ; Pellegr. Poiss. Bass. Tcluul, p. 120, 



fig.(iyil). 



Depth of body 2| to 2^ times in total length, length of head 

 2§ to 3 times. Snout rounded, as long as or a little sliorter than eye, 

 which is 4 to 4| times in length of head and about ]^ times in inter- 

 orbital width; niaxillary extending to below anterior third of eye; 

 palatine teeth present ; praH)rbital entire ; a few small serra; may be 

 present at the angle of the pneopercuhun ; iuteroperculum and sub- 

 opercuhun finely terrated ; operculum A\ith two groups of strong scrnc. 



