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SILtJRID^. 



head ; band of prsemaxillary teeth 6 times as long as broad, as broad as 

 and close to the crescentic band of vomerine teeth ; nasal barbel about 

 ^ length of head ; maxillary barbel 2-J- times length of head, extending 

 beyond root of ventral ; inner mandibular barbel f length of head, 

 outer f . Dorsal I 8, longest branched ray nearly as long as head ; 

 last ray above inner ray of ventral. Adipose fin 5 times as long 



Fig. 249. 



Bugrus uhangensis. 

 Type (A. M. C). ^. 



as deep, much longer than rayed dorsal and twice and \ its distance 

 from the latter. Anal 11, 7 rays branched. Pectoral | length of head, 

 its spine strong and feebly denticulate on inner edge. Caudal deeply 

 forked, both lobes prolonged into filaments. Caudal peduncle scarcely 

 longer than deep. Brown above, with a few black dots, whitish beneath ; 

 a large blackish spot behind the shoulder. 



Total length 300 millim. 



Ubanghi. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



15. CHRYSICHTHYS. 



Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Ind.-Neerl. iv. 1«58, p. GO, and Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. 



186:5, p. 95 ; Gunth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 70 (18G4) ; Bouleng. Poiss. Buss. 



Congo, p. 277 (15)01), and Fish. Nile, p. 333 (li)07). 

 Mclanodadi/lus, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. 1803, p. 05. 

 Clivijsohagrus, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, i. p. 290 (18'JD). 



Body moderately elongate, feebly compressed. Dorsal and anal fins 

 short, the former consisting of a spine and 5 or 6 branched rays and 

 followed by an adipose fin. Pectoral fin with a spine. Ventral fin 



