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Ai)i)i:xi).\, vor.. III. 



ila. HArLOCHILUS ANNULATUS. 



l?.uil(ii-. Ami. &, Max- N. H. (H) xv. l',tl.'>, p. •203. 



Depth of body 4^ to 5 times in total length, length of head 3i times. 

 Head flat above ; snout a little shorter than eye ; mouth directed 

 upwards, lower jaw projecting; eye 2| times in length of head, ]^ 

 times in interorbital width ; pntorbital very narrow. Dorsal 7, origi- 

 nating twice as far from occiput as from root of caudal, above ])osteri(n- 

 third or fourth of anal, j)ro(hi(ed, longest ray as long as head. Anal 

 lli-lo, produced like the dorsal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, 

 extending beyond base of ventral ; latter small. C^audal pointed, median 



Fig. 189. 



Jlaplochilus annuialiis. 

 Type. X 2. 



rays produced, longer tlian head. Caudal peduncle Ij times as long as 

 deep. 28 or 29 scales in longitudinal series, 22 round body ; lateral 

 line represented by an interrupted series of pits. Lemon-yellow, with 

 four broad black rings, the first round the head, the last round the 

 caudal peduncle ; doisal and anal yellow and black ; caudal orange, 

 with two dark pur[»le longitudinal lines. 



'J'otal length Id millim. 



Sierra Leone. 



1-1'. Types. Maka. X. \V. Thomas. Esq. (P.). 



;'.. A.l. Bo. 



•!-.'>. ilgr. N. Sherbo ilistri(it. 



()-\>. Ad. & h^n-. Victoria. 



Appears most nearly related to JI. c/ucalieri. 



1-am. SERRAXID.E. 



•1. AMBASSIS, ('. k V. 

 1. A^lBAS.Siy UOMMEUSOXn. C. k V. 



Add :— 



14-;i;3. All., lin-r.. Frc.-li-watcr sn-cam at Biihuha. lir. W. ;\r. Ader.s (P.). 



& .Vy. 0[)po:^itp Zanzibar. 



