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1 Nile at barrage near Cairo. — Loat 7 19.3.99. 



3 Nile about 2 miles north of Cairo, close to island of Warrag. — Loat, 15.3.99. 



6 Nile at Cairo, bought in Old Cairo Fish Bazar.— Loat, 27.3-4.5,99. 

 10 Beni Souef.— Loat, 26-30.8.99, 



3 Bahr Selah, Fayum,— Loat, 5.10.99. 



1 Girgeh — Loat, 14.12.99. 



3 At a regulator near Luxor. — Loat, 8.10-12.11.00. 

 13 Assuan.— Loat, 29.8-12.9.00. 



4 Debud.— Loat, 15-16.1.00. 



1 Abu Hor.— Loat, 18.1.00. 



2 Mirrwan.— Loat, 19.1.00. 



1 El Maharakka.— Loat, 24.1.00. 



2 Derr.— Loat, 31.1.00, 



1 Kosheh.— Loat, 8.3.00. 



3 Khartum.— Petherick, 1862. 



2 Wad Medine, Blue Nile.— Loat, 10.10.01. 

 1 Kawa, White Nile.— Loat, 5.1.0 i . 



1 Gharb-el-Aish.— Loat, 17.1.01. 

 1 Tewfikyeh.— Loat, 22.1.01. 



4 Fashoda. — Loat, 14.3.01. 



8 Mouth o£ Lake No.— Loat, 31.1-5.2.01. 



1 Tsutyaba, Lake Albert.— Budge tt, 8.8.02. 



2 Lagos.— Sir A. Moloney, 1891. 



1 Lokoje, Upper Niger. — Budgett, 1904. 



2 Mureji, Upper Niger. — Budgett, 1904. 



1 Jebba, Upper Niger.— Capt. Gr. F. Abadie, 1899, 



2 Ossomari, Lower Niger. — Dr. Ansorge, 1902. 



2 Warri, Old Calabar.— Miss Kingsley, 1894. 



7 Old Calabar.— E. Seimund, 1903. 



1 Old Calabar.— Dr. Jackson, 1905. 



3 Cameroon.— Salmin, 1871. 



2 Cameroon. — Dr. Jackson, 1905, 

 1 Ogowe. — Miss Kingsley, 1895. 



1 Banzyville, Ubanghi. — Capt. Royaux, 190L 



2 Erroneously stated to be from India. — Old Collection. (Types of E. obtusirostris,) 



I have also examined the types of Eutropius adansonii (Senegal : Adanson) and 

 Schilbe hasselquistii (Egypt : Geoffroy) in the Paris Museum. The first is a half-skin 

 in very bad condition; the second is in spirit, and although the fins are badly 

 preserved, the adipose dorsal is perfectly distinct. 



The food of this fish consists chiefly of small fishes, worms, insect-larva?, and 

 crustaceans. A specimen from Gharb-el-Aish has remains of a small rodent in the 

 stomach. Mr. Loat has noted its curious habit of inflating its stomach with air after 



