1907.] 



AFRICAN SILURID PISHES. 



1073 



serrated on the outer border, f the length of the fin. Ventral a 

 little nearer end of snout than caudal. Latter nearly | length 



Text-fiff. 250. 



Clarias vinciguerrce. 



of head. Dark brown above, whitish beneath ; anal and caudal 

 with a fine light edge. 



Total length 410 millim. 



Kassam River at Awhorra Mullka, Shoa, about 4000 feet. 



7. Clarias lazera. 



Silurus anguillaris (non Linnaais) A. Russell, Nat. Hist. Aleppo,. 

 2nd ed. ii. p. 217, pi. viii. (1794). 



Macropte?'onottcs charmuth, part., Lacep6de, Hist. Poiss. v. p. 85 

 (1803). 



Heterohranchus anguillaris (non Linnaeus) I. GeofFroy, Desci". 

 Egypte, Poiss. p. 305, pi. xvi. fig. 1 (1827); Joannis, Mag. ZooL 

 1835, pi. xiv. 



Garmout Lasera, Rifaud, Voy. Egypte, pi. cxcv. (1830). 



Clarias lazera Ouvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss. xv. p. 372 

 (1840); Giinther, Cat. Fish. v. p. 16 (1864); Peters, Reise 

 MoSvSamb. iv. p. 36 (1868) ; Giinther, Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 218 

 (1869) ; Boulenger, Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 252 (1901) ; Hilgendori, 

 Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii. 1905, p. 409 ; Boulenger, Fish. Mle» 

 p. 288, pi. lii. (1907). 



Clarias syriacus Cuvier & Valenciennes, t. c. p. 375. 



Clarias capensis (non Cuvier & Valenciennes) Huxley, Mem. 

 Geol. Surv. x. pp. 30 & 32, fig. (1861). 



? Clarias ngamensis Castelnau, Poiss. Afr. Austr. p. 63 (1861). 



Clarias orontis Giinther, Cat. Fish. v. p. 15 ; Bauvage, N. Arch. 

 Mus. (2) vii. 1884, p. 18, pi. 1. fig. 2. 



