2G6 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on 



beneatli, with carmine spots, wliicii are larger and lighter in 

 the males, in which they may be confluent into longitudinal 

 streaks ; fins greyish, dorsal and caudal spotted with carmine ; 

 in males anal edged with carmine and white and lower 

 border of caudal similarly marked. 



Total length 50 mm. 



Liberia. Several specimens, presented by Mr. J. Paul 

 Arnold. I had first referred these fish to my //. elegans, and 

 it is under that name that Mr. Arnold has published notes on 

 it, together with an excellent coloured figure^ in the ' Wochen- 

 schricht fiir Aquarien- und Terrarienkunde,' vol. v. no. 23, 

 1908. //. eh'gans differs in having D. 7-8, A. 14-15. 



Haplochilus striatus. 



Di'pth of body 4 to 4^ times in total length, length of head 

 3^ to 3§ times. Head flat above ; snout short and broad, 

 shorter than eye ; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw pro- 

 jecting ; eye 3^ tjme:^ in length of head, 1^ times in inter- 

 orbital width ; prajorbital about \ diameter of eye. Dorsal 

 9-10, originating twice as far from centre or anterior border 

 of eye as from root of caudal, above middle of anal, acutely 

 pointed behind, longest ray | length of head (males). Anal 

 13, pointed like the dorsal. Pectoral | to i length of head, 

 reacliirig base of ventral ; latter small, equally distant from end 

 of snout and from root of caudal. Caudal rounded, with one 

 of the upper rays produced into a short filament. Caudal 

 peduncle I3- times as long as deep. 30-31 scales in longi- 

 tudinal series, 20-22 round body in front of ventrals ; 

 lateral line pits very indistinct or absent. Pale olive above, 

 yellowish white beneath ; carmine spots forming 3 or 4 

 regular longitudinal series on each side, separated by olive 

 streaks; fins greyish, dorsal and anal edged with carmine 

 and with a carmine median streak ; caudal spotted with 

 carmine and with a carmine and white streak above and 

 below. 



Total length 38 mm. 



Ogowe. Four specimens from the Abanga River, between 

 the tirst and second rapids, collected by Dr. W. J. Ansorge. 



IJiiplochilus lo)igiven(niUs. 



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

 3 to 3^ times. Head flat above ; snout rounded, a little 

 longer than eye ; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw slightly 

 projecting; eye 3^ to 3| times in length of head, 1| to IJ 



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