314 SILUEHXE. 



5 Nile at Cairo.— Loat, 17.6-2.7.00. 



3 Nile near Cairo, bought in Old Cairo Fish Bazar. — Loat, 27.3.99. 



4 Near Cairo, in a canal by the side of the road leading to Pyramids o£ Giza. — Loat, 



7.3.99. 

 3 Beni Souef.— Loat, 26.8.99. 

 3 Bahr Selah, Fayum.— Loat, 5.10.99. 



3 Nile at Luxor.— Loat, 21.10.00. 



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



7 Between Luxor and Assuan. — Loat, 9-10.00. 



9 Near Assuan.— Loat, 31.12.99, 2.9.00. 



4 Khartum.— Petherick, 1862. 



14 Wad Medine, Blue Nile.— Loat, 9.10.01. 



4 Fashoda, in a kore. — Loat, 14-31.3.01. 



5 Sobat P. — Zaphiro, 1904. 



3 Mouth of Lake No.— Loat, 30.1-25.2.01. 



2 Gondokoro. — Petherick, 1862. (Type of S. dispila.) 



1 Buganga, L. Victoria. — Degen, 15.11.05. 



1 Wondo, Sagan Eiver, L. Abaia. — Zaphiro, 22.8.05. 



1 Lake Chad.— Capt. Gosling, 1904. 



2 St. Louis, Senegal.— -Delhez, 1899. 

 7 Kaedi, Senegal.— Delhez, 1899. 



5 Gambia.— Budgett, 1899. 



1 Sapelle, S. Nigeria. — Dr. Ansorge, 1900. 



1 Niger. — Fraser, 1851. (Type oE S. dispila.) 



2 Old Calabar.— Miss Kingsley, 1894. 

 1 Gaboon. 



1 Lower Congo. — Greshofr*, 1891. 



1 Bangala Country, Congo. — Demeuse, 1898. 



1 Monsembe, Upper Congo. — Rev. J. H. Weeks, 1895. 



1 Lake Mweru.— Sir A. Sharpe, 1900. 



1 Lake Bangwelo.— Melland, 1905. 



1 Kazungula, Upper Zambesi. — Be v. L. Jalla, 1896. 



This Cat fish is as much a carnivore as its European ally Silurus giants. A specimen 

 only 150 millimetres long from Khartum (Petherick collection) contained an entire 

 Alestes baremose 115 millimetres long. 



Arabic names, according to Mr. Loat: — " Shilber" (*lu), at Cairo, Barrage N. of 

 Cairo, Samannud, Kafr-el-Zayat, Eosetta, Lake Borollos, Fayum, Assiut, Sohag, 

 Akhmim, Girga, Nag'Hamadeh; "shilber arable" (zjjjC £aL£), sometimes applied to 

 this species to distinguish it from " zerrea " at Kafr-el-Zayat ; " armbrub " (<— y», also 

 known by this name at Akhmim ; " siVby'er " (<luU), between Shellal and Wady 

 Haifa; " shilbya see fare a" (*,U*« *jj1»), at Omdurman. The name "shilber" is 



