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38. HAPLOCHILUS MULTIFASCIATUS. 

 Bouleng. Bull. Soc. Nat. Luxemb. 1913, p. 43. 



Depth of body 6 to 5^ times in total length, length of head 3| to 

 times. Head flat above; snout broad, rounded, as long as eye; 

 mouth directed upwards; lower jaw scarcely projecting; eye 3^ to 

 3^ times in length of head, 1| times in interorbital width ; prseorbital 

 about I diameter of eye. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far from head 

 as from root of caudal, above posterior fourth of anal, longest rays 

 about ^ length of head. Anal 14-15, longest rays f to f length of 

 head. Pectoral | length of head, just reaching base of ventral ; ventral 

 small, equally distant from end of snout and from root of caudal. 

 Caudal pointed, median rays sometimes produced, longer than bead. 

 Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 29-30 scales in longitudinal series, 

 '20 round body in front of ventrals ; lateral line indicated by a series of 

 feeble pits. Pale brownish, with 7 blackish vertical bars, two above the 

 anal and two on the caudal peduncle ; narrower bars sometimes present 



Fig. 02. 



llaplocliilus multifasciatus. 

 Type. xlf. 



between the principal ones ; two black bars across the chin ; dorsal and 

 caudal whitish, with small blackish spots ; distal half of anal blackish, 

 the bars of the body usually extending on its white basal half. 



Total length 45 millim. 



Kasai, Congo.— Types in Luxemburg Museum. 

 1-6. Types. KoiiJue, Kasai. M. E. Luja (C). 



7-J2. Ad. „ „ 



39. HAPLOCHILUS aPAHAMI. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. '(8) viii. 1911, p. 267. 



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

 0^ times. Head flat above ; snout broad, rounded, a little shorter than 

 eye ; mouth directed upwards ; lower jaw projecting ; eye 3 to 3f times 

 in length of head, 1^ times in interorbital width; prfeorbital barely 

 I diameter of eye. Dorsal 7-8, originating about twice as far from 



