170 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on two new Fishes. 



above the eleventli or twelfth scale of the lateral line, 

 midway between the occiput and the root of the caudal 

 in males, between the gill-opening and the root of the caudal 

 in females. Origin of anal below the thirteenth or fourteenth 

 scale of the lateral line in males, below the fifteenth in 

 females. Caudal truncated. Males with ten or eleven dark 

 brown vertical bands, separated by yellowish-brown inter- 

 spaces ; dorsal blackish, with transverse series of black dots ; 

 anal yellowish, with transverse series of black dots; caudal 

 yellowish, with three or four blackish vertical lines. Females 

 brown, with small blackish spots ; a black spot at the root of 

 the caudal ; fins yellowish. 



Total length, male 45 millim., female 52. 



Several specimens were obtained in Asia Minor, at Albis- 

 tan, by Mr. C. G. Danford. 0. dispar^ Riipp., was likewise 

 found in the same locality by Mr. Danford. 



Haplochilus Hartii. 

 D. 9-10. A. 15-16. V. 6. L. lat. 39-43. L. tr. 10-11. 



Height of body 5 to 5| times in males, A\ times in females, 

 in the total length (without caudal) ; length of head 3f to 4 

 times in males, 3^ to 3| in females. Diameter of eye equal 

 to length of snout and one fourth the length of the head ; 

 interorbital space half length of head ; snout very short, 

 lower jaw projecting beyond the upper ; a short tentacle on 

 each side of the snout. Origin of the dorsal above the middle 

 of the anal, twice as far from the occiput as from the root of 

 the caudal, corresponding to the twenty-fifth to twenty-seventh 

 scale of the lateral line. Pectorals not reaching ventrals, 

 latter not reaching anal. Brown or bronzy above, yellowish 

 inferiorly ; each scale with a darker spot, best defined in the 

 males ; dorsal and anal fins whitish, with grey dots, anal with 

 a fine blackish edge ; caudal grey or blackish. 



Total length 80 milllim. 



Trinidad. " Known as the Wabine ; has a great power of 

 leaving the water and jumping by its tail." Several speci- 

 mens were presented to the British Museum by Mr. J. H. 

 Hart, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Trini- 

 dad, to whom we already owe the discovery of an undescribed 

 frog on that island *. 



* Eupemphix trinitatis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) iii. 1889, 

 p. 307. 



