192 LÖNNBERG, NOTES ON FISHES COLLECTED IN THE CAMEROONS. 



The coloration of the male is splendid, brown with bright 

 carmine-red markings. The sides of the head are reticulated with 

 oblique red bands and narrower red streaks. A red band under 

 the chin, along the curvature of the lower jaw. The sides of 

 the anterior part of the body to about the tip of the pectoral 

 fins is irregularly spotted with red spöts, wliich are situated on 

 the posterior half of the seales and therefore partly form longi- 

 tudinal rows. Across the sides of the body, behind the pecto- 

 ral fins to the base of the caudal, are 8 or 9 carraine-red ver- 

 tical bars. The upper half of the caudal fin is provided with 

 broad longitudinal red bands on the web between the rays, the 

 lower half is partly streaked, partly spotted in the same way. 

 Along the base of the dorsal fin extends a bright carmine-red 

 band. The fin itself, as well as the pectoral and ventral fins, 

 is spotted with red. The anal fin is also spotted with red, 

 especially in its exteriör part, where, the large spöts become more 

 or less confluent. 



The coloration of the female is neither so bright nor so well 

 preserved, but so much can be seen that at least both dorsal and 

 anal fins have been spotted with red. On the seales of the body 

 some red spöts can also be traced. 



Number of dorsal rays 17 — 18, but the first is nearly rudi- 

 mentary; number of anal rays 17 in both sexes. In the female, 

 the pectoral fins do not extend to the root of the ventral fins. 

 In the male, on the contrary, the fins are considerably enlarged, 

 so that the pectoral fins reach a good deal beyond the root of 

 the ventral fins. In the female, the hindmost dorsal rays barely 

 reach the first caudal rays; but the anal rays do not reach so 

 far as to the caudal. In the male the posterior rays of the 

 dorsal and anal fins are produced, filamentous, so that the for- 

 mer extend greatly beyond the root of the caudal and the latter 

 less so. In the male also the middle rays (especially the ones 

 in the upper part of the middle) of the caudal are strongly pro- 

 duced. The origin of the dorsal fin is in the male midway 

 between the root of the caudal and the eve, in the female about 



