AX ABAS. 



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greater part covered with scales. Caiulal peduncle merely indicated. 

 Scales finely striated and ctenoid, 2S ~^ ; lateral lines ,, , ,'• Dark 

 brown, ventrals and caudal edged with white ; a darker band on each 

 side ot the head, passing through the eye ; another, oblique, below 

 the eye. 



'iotal length llKI iiiilliin. 



Yendu' Kiver, I'lianiihi. — ryi)e in Congo Museum. 'IVrvueren. 



I'iiJ. 11. 



Aiia/ias o.nii'/iymliiis. 

 Type (A. M. C). ^. 



16. ANABAS OCELLATUS. 



Clennpntna /x'thcrtri (iioii (iiintli.), Scliillli. Tijilsclir. Xnli'i'l. IMcrlv. Vt'i'. (2) iii. 



1S'.»1, p. bi. 

 neiwpoma ocAlatum, Pollcgr. litill. Miis. l';iiis, It'll'.!, |,. 35'J. 

 Llenopoinn (tciit'iri>.<li\\ I'clli'gr. t. f. |i. ildd. 

 Cteiinpoma dentiriilatum, I'ellogr. t. c. ji. 'M'<\ . 

 Anahas loeekm, part., Boiileiig. Ann. & Mag. N. li. (7; iii. Iti'J'.', p. 2k'.\, ami i'oi^s. 



Bass. Congo, p. ;577 (lyOl). 

 Anahas ocellatus, Boulong. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. I'.IO.i, (i. ■'>'.\. 

 Anahas n'eeks'il, Stcind. Deiik.--elip. Ak. Wicii, lx\\i\. 1'.MI5, ji. 51. 



Depth of body 1| to 2^ times in total length, length of head 2^ to 

 3 times. Snout very pointed, as long as eye ; ui)per profile of head 

 straight or concave; eye 3^ to 4 times in length of head, 1 to 1^ times 

 in interorbital width ; maxillary extending to below anterior border or 

 anterior fcnirth of eye ; palatine teeth present ; pricorbital entire ; angle 

 of pncoperculum sometimes feebly serrated ; interoperculum and sub- 

 operculum entire or serrated; several spines above and below opercular 

 notch. to 11 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. J)()rsal 

 XVl-XVllI 0-1::^ ; spines equal from the sixth or seventh, about 



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