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ADDENDA, VOL. I. 



16 a. GNATIIONEMUB BRUf'II. 



Boiilcng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) vi. 1010, p. 42.J. 



Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head Ah times. 

 Head as long as deep, with curved upper profile ; snout I length 

 of licad; teeth conical, 5 in upper jaw, G in lower; chin with feeble 

 globular swelling ; eye f length of snout, | interorbital width. 

 Doral 25, originating above 5th ray of anal, its length i its distance 

 from liead. Anal 30, nearer base of caudal than base of ventral. 



Fig. 109. 



Gtiathonemiis hrncii. 

 Type. ^ 



Pectoral pointed, a little shorter than head, extending to base of 

 vrntral. Caudal f scaled, witli moderately long pointed lobes. Caudal 

 peduncle twice as long as deep. 00 scales in lateral line, jg in trans- 

 verse series on body, j^ in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 

 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown (dirty greenish in life), darker 

 above, puler beneath ; tins dark brown. 



Total length 150 millim. 



Ogun River, interior of Lagos. 



1. Type. Ogun R. at Aio. ^Fajor G. E. Bruce (P.). 



l^istinguished from G. angolensis by a smaller eye, a liigher number 

 of scales above tlie lateral line, and a less slender caudal peduncle. 



