354 



SILUKID.E. 



5. s{. liavqer'i, Blgr., p. 3.')^. 



[p. 351). 



Muxilliiry 1)arbel longer tlian head ; length of snoiib 

 1^ times interocular width ; caudal peduncle 



not longer than deep 



V>. Head longer than broad ; snout ohtu.sely 

 pointed, its length 2 (young) to 3 times 

 interocular width ; base of adipose dorsal 

 not more thnn 1^ times that of rayed dorsal. G. A. lonffirosfris, l^'o'"-' 

 II. Dorsal entirely or partly above the ventraN. 



A. Head but slightly longer than broad ; snout broadly rounded ; interocular 



w idth 2^-3 times diameter of eye. 

 Length of head 4-4^ times in total length ; caudal 



jieduncle a little longer than deep ; caudal 



forked, with rounded lobes 



Length of head 3§-3^ times in total length ; caudal 



peduncle as long as deep ; caudal feebly emar- 



ginate 8. yi. Jnu'vis, Blgr., p. 3(U. 



B. Head much longer than broad ; snout 



obtusely pointed ; interocular width less [p. 3(J2. 



than diameter of eye 9. A. aiu/ns/ifrons, Blgw, 



[p. 3i;o. 



■1. ((fe.'<i(eit.'<i.-<, Blgi"., 



1. AMPHILIUS URANOSOOPUS. 



Anoploptenis uranoscopus, Pfeflf. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. vi. 2, LS80, p. 16, x. 2, 



1893, p. 33, pi. ii. figs. 1 & 2, and Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 33 (1896). 

 AmpJiiliiis lU'diinscoj'Ks, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, i. p. 61. 



Fi^. 274. 



''^■'-^i; 



A mpJiilias uranoscopus. 

 Type, alter Pfeffer (Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Aust. 1893). 4. 



Depth of body 6 times in total length, length 

 of head 5^ times. Head mnch depressed, a little 

 longer than broad ; snout broadly rounded, nearly 

 h length of head ; eye very small, about 12 times 

 in length of head and 3 times in interocular width ; 



