296 



SHAIKH)^. 



7. CLARIAS ALLUAUDI. 



(Plate LIII. fig. 2.) 



Boulenger, Ann. & Mag. N. IT. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 437. 



Clarias microphthalmus (non Pfeffer), Pellegrin, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvii. 1905, p. 176. 



Depth of body five and two-thirds to six and a half times in the total length, length 

 of head four to four and a half times. Head once and one-third to once and a half 

 as long as broad, smooth above ; occipital process acutely pointed, longer than broad ; 

 frontal fontanelle twice as long as brond, about four times in the length of the head ; 

 occipital fontanelle small, extending on occipital process ; eye twice or twice and a 

 half in the length of the snout, four or five times in the interorbital width ; width 

 of mouth a little less than interorbital width ; band of praemaxillary teeth about four 



Measurements ( in millimetres). 



Total length (without caudal) 



Greatest depth 



Length of head 



Width of head 



Length of snout 



Diameter of eye 



Interorbital width 



Width of mouth 



Length of nasal barbel 



maxillary barbel 



inner mandibular barbel 

 outer mandibular barbel 



pectoral fin 



,, spine 



1. 



128 



22 



30 



21 



6 



12 

 11 

 34 

 50 

 31 

 42 

 15 

 10 



97 



17 



23 



17 



5 



2 



9 



8 



27 



37 



20 



30 



11 



90 

 14 

 21 

 16 

 5 

 2 



22 

 34 

 19 



27 

 11 



Bunjako. — Degen. 



2. Kavirondo Bay. — Alluaud. 



3. Entebbe. — Degen. 



