chel.^:thiops. 



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1. CHEL^ETHIOPS BIBIE. 



l.euchcus bilne, Joannis, Mag. de Z(3ol. 1835, iv. pi. iv. 



Pelecus hihie, Heckel, Russegger's Reise Egypt, iii. p. 329 (1846). 



Banlivs bible, Gunther, Petlierick's Truv. ii. p. 2G4: (1869). 



CheJailrlops bibie, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 263 ; Wenior, 



8itzh. Ak. Wien, cxv. i. 1906, p. 1097*; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 271, 



pi. xlviii. fig. 5 (1907). 



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



Chela-tliiops bihlc. 

 Assuau. 



times. Head 2 to 2J times as long as broad ; snout acutely pointed, 

 slightly projecting beyond mouth, not longer than eye, which is con- 

 tained o to 4 times in length of head ; interorbital width equal to 

 diameter of eye or a little greater; mouth extending to below centre ot 

 eje ; suborbital bones nearly entirely covering cheek, second very narrow 

 and extending to below centre of eye. Gill-rakers few and very short. 

 Dorsal III 1, above anteiior half of anal, tv\ire as far from occiput as 

 from base of caudal; first branched ray L)ngest, f to § length of head. 

 Anal 111 16-19; first branched ray longest and as long as or a little 

 shorter than that of dorsal. Pectoral acutely pointed, longer than head, 

 extending beyond root of ventral. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal 

 peduncle 1§ to 2 times as long as deep. Scales with radiating stria\ 

 o7-4l ^t|i, 1-1 J between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal 

 peduncle. Uniform silvery, brownish olive on the back ; tins yellowish 

 white. 



Total length o5 millim. 



Lower Nile to Bahr-el-Gebel ; AVebi Shebeli.— Type apparently lost. 

 1-2. Ad. Barrage near Kalioub, N. of Cairo. Dr. F. Werner (V. 



:5-9. Hot. Near Luxor. L. hojit, Esq. (( '.). 



10-13. Ad. Between Lnxor and Assium. „ 



* Not the fi;?ure, Mliieh. t'nroiigh an oversight, is t;,lxon ridiii a lldiUum iiiloiUva. 



