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SILURID.E. 



reaching anal. Caudal roimded. Brown above, yellow beneath, with 

 small dark spots ; five transverse series of more or less confluent black 

 spots on the body ; dorsal and anal with small black spots. 



Ficr. 284. 



Paraudienoc/lrinis niacrostcma. 

 Type, after Pellegrin (I. c). |. 



Total length 240 millim. 

 Ogowe. — Type in Paris Museum. 



2?>. AUCHENOGLANIS. 



AucJienas/ds (non Eoerton), Bleek. Neder!. Tijdi^clir. Dierk. i. 18(j3, p. 101 ; 



Glinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 137 (18G1). 

 AncJtemv/latiis, (Tiintli. Zool. Rec. i. p. 1G5 (18G5) ; Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, 



p. 21*4 (1901), and Fish. Nile, p. 344 (1907). 

 O.n/glatiis, Vincig. Ann. Miis. Genova, (2) xix. 18'.'8, p. 249. 



Body moderately elongate, feebly compressed. Dorsal and anal fins 

 short, the former composed of a spine and 7 or 8 branched rajs, and 

 followed by a very long adipose fin. Pectoral fin with a spine. Ventral 

 fin with 6 rays, just behind the vertical of the dorsal fin. Three 

 pairs of barbels : maxillary and two mandibulars. Nostrils widely 

 separated from each other, the anterior tubular, on the upper lip, the 

 posterior slit-like. Eye supero-lateral, with free border. Prpemaxillaries 

 small ; maxillaries, hidden in the lij), con)])aratively large, bordering 

 the month. Jaws with villiforra teeth, which may be reduced to 

 small groups; palate toothless. Gill-membranes free, feebly notched. 

 Air-bladder large, free. 



