HAPLOCHILUS. 



oi 



1-2. A<I. 



a-5. A.l. Si Hot. 



0-7. Ad. 



8. Ono of the tyi);'s. 



Sierru Leone. 

 Liberia, 



A:<sini, Gold Coast. 



Mr. J. Paul Arnold (P.). 



G. A. Boulen^cr, Esq. (T.). 

 M. {diaper (G.); 



Paris Museum (P.). 



It;. HAPLOCHILUS UECORSIL 

 rclle<;r. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1904, p. 223. 



Depth of body 3^ to 4 times in total length, length of head 3^ tinii s. 

 Head flat above; snout broad, rounded, as long as or a little shorter 

 than eye; lower jaw projecting; eye nearly 4 times in length of head, 

 1^ times in interorbital width. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far 

 irom anterior border of eye as from root of caudal, above middle of annl. 

 Anal 13-14. Pectoral | length of head. Caudal rounded-acuminate, 

 longest rays sometimes as long as head. Caudal peduncle 1^ times as 

 long as deep. 25-28 scales in longitudinal series, 24-26 round body in 

 front of ventrals. Yellowish, each scale with a dark edge ; a dark line 

 from hcnd to origin of dorsal ; fins with carmine dots, caudal finely 

 edged with carmine in the male. 



Total length 40 millim. 



Ubanghi. — Types in Paris Museum. 



17. HAPLOCHILUS EXIGUUS. 

 r.oulcng. Ann. & Mag. N. II. (8) viii. 1011, p. 2(55. 



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

 Head fiat above; snout broad, rounded, a little shorter than eye ; mouth 

 directed upwards, lower jaw sliglitly projecting; eye 'Sh times in length 

 of head, 5 interorbital width; prie()rbital nearly ^ diameter of e}e. 



Fitr. 42. 





Jliqtlochilus e.vl'jx us. 

 d,typo. ^. 



Dorsal 8, originating twice as far from eye as from root of caudal, above 

 middle of anal; penultimate ray produced into a long filament ( J ). 

 Anal 12. Pectoral 5 lenuth of head, barelv reaching base of ventral ; 

 latttr small, equally distant from end cf snout and from root of caudal. 



