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23. HAPLOCIilLUS HUTEREAUI. 

 Bouleiig. Rev. Zool. Afr. ii. 1913, p. 159. 



Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 3j to 3^ times. 

 Head flat above ; snout broad, rounded, shorter than eye ; mouth 

 directed upwards, lower jaw projecting ; eye nearly as long as postocular 

 part of head, about f to f interorbital width ; prseorbital not quite J 

 diameter of eye. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far from end of snout 



Fig. 48. 



Ilaplocldlus hutereaiii. 

 Type. f. 



or anterior border of eye as from root of caudal, above middle of anal ; 

 longest rays as long as head or a little shorter. Anal 13-15. Pectoral 

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

 end of snout than root of caudal. Caudal rounded, as long as head. 

 Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 28-24 scales in longitudinal series, 

 ] 6 round body in front of ventrals ; lateral line absent. Yellowish, the 

 scales edged with dark brown ; fins white, with four or five blackish 

 bars or transverse series of blackish spots on the posterior half of the 

 dorsal and anal and on the caudal. 



Total length 3-5 millim. 



Uelle Kiver, Upper Congo, and Lake Mweru.— Types in Congo 

 Museum, Tervueren. 

 1. One o£ the types. Dungu, Uelle. M. Hutereau (O.). 



24. HAPLOCHILUS LOATL 

 Boiileng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. ilG, and Fish. Nile, p. 417, 

 pi. Ixxix. fig. 7 (1907). 

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

 times. Head flat above; snout very short, shorter than eye; mouth 

 directed upwards, lower jaw projecting ; eye less than 3 times in length 

 of head, as long as postorbital part of head, 1^ times in interorbital 

 width; preeorbital about f diameter of eye. Dorsal 7-8, originating 

 twice as far from eye as from ' root of caudal, above middle of anal ; 



