CIPKINODONTID^. 



lip blackish ; fins grey, edged with black, dorsal and anal with round 

 purplish-grey spots. 



Total length 70 millim. 



Ogowe. 



1-2. Types. ]\[asoma 1{., flowinjr into L. Aoemwe Dr. ^Y. J. Ansorge (C). 



at Umpokoya. 



14. HAFLOCHILUS SEXFASCIATUS. 

 Epiplalys sexfasciatHs, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 18(52, p. 13G ; Cope, Proc. Amor. 



Philos. Soc. xi. 1870, p. 457. 

 Uaplochilus wfrafasciatKS, Guntb. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 31.3 (18G6); Steind. Notes 



Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 76 ; Lonnb. Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1805, 



p. "188. 

 Haplocldlus sexfasciatus, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, i. p. 27; Arnold, Woch. 



Aq. Terr. 1911, p. 557, fig. ; Gerlacb, Bl. Aq. Terr. 1912, p. 741, fig. 

 Lycocypnuus sexfasciatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 18G8, p. 146. 



Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total length, length of head 3^ to 3| 

 times. Head flat above ; snout rounded, as long as or slightly longer 

 than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw feebly projecting; eye 3| 

 to 3§ times in length of head, about \ interorbital width ; prsEorbital 

 about J diameter of eye. Dorsal 10-12, originating twice as far from 

 occiput as from root of caudal, above middle of anal; longest rays about 



Kg. 40. 



Uaplochilus sexfasciatus. 

 c? , Ogowe. 



I length of head in males, shorter in females. Anal 15-17. Pectoral 

 I to f length of head, extending a little beyond root of ventral ; latter 

 equally distant from end of snout and from root of caudal. Caudal as 

 long as or a little longer than head, rounded-subcarinate. Caudal 

 peduncle as long as deep. 28-32 scales in longitudinal series, 20-22 

 round body in front of ventrals ; lateral line indicated by a series of pits. 

 Brown above, yellowish beneath, with carmine dots and usually 5 to 7 

 blackish vertical bars on the body, confined, except the last, to the lower 

 part of the side; the first bar usually just behind the base of the 

 pectoral ; two bars above the anal ; a series of large black dots some- 



