FUIS'DULUS. 33 



]5-16, orij^inating slightly in advance of dorsal. Pectoral f length of 

 head, reaching base of ventral ; latter small, equally distant from end 

 of snout and from root of caudal. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle 

 as long as deep. 28-30 scales in longitudinal series, 22-24 round body 

 in front of ventrals; lateral line indicated by a series of pits. Uniform 

 brownish (badly preserved specimens). 



Total length 42 millim. 



Gold Coast. 



1-3. Typos. Bokitsa Mine (Was'i). H. B. N. Walker, Es.}. (C.) ; 



Dr. A. Gilnther (P.). 



10. FU;>fDULUS OBTHONOTUS. 

 Ciiprinoilon orthonotus, Peter.-J, Mon. Beii. Ac. 1844, p. 35. 

 Ilijdt'aripjra macnlata, Peters, Arch. f. Nat. 1855, i. p. 269. 

 Inuululus orfhonoliis, part.^ Giintli, Cat. Fish. vi. p. 326 (1866). 

 JS'othohrancJtitiS ortJionofus, Peters, Eeise Mossamb. iv. p. 61, pi. xii. fig. 1 (1868). 



Depth of body 3 to 3^ times in total length, length of head 2| to B 

 times. Upper surface of head convex from between the eyes ; snout 

 short and broad, a little shorter than eye ; mouth directed upwards ; 

 lower jaw projecting; eye 4 times in length of head, If to 1| times 

 in interorbital width ; space between eye and lip very narrow, the 

 latter forming an angle fitting into a notch close to the former. Dorsal 

 15-lG, originating midway between occiput and root of caudal, posterior 



Fig. 24. 



Funchilus orthonotus. 

 d , type, after Peters (Reise Mossarab.). 



rays longest, as long as head in male, shorter in female. Anal 14-lG, 

 opposite to dorsal. Pectoral J to f length of head, reaching base of 

 ventral or a little beyond; ventral small, nearer base of caudal than end 

 of snout. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 28-30 



