PELMATOCIIROMIS. 



391 



Caudal peduucle deeper than long. Scales cycloid, 27-29 ^, ; lateral 

 Jines g-jj. Brownish, with 4 or 5 rather indistinct darker bars and a 

 black opercular spot ; a dark si)ot below the l>ase of the dorsal between 

 the spinous and soft portions ; soft dorsal with small light spots. 



Total length 130 millim. 



Liberia. — Type, in Leyden Museum, examined. 



1-2. Ad. & lioT. Nanna Kru. W. P. Lowe, Esq. ((! ) 



3, 4. Skel. ^ ^ '^' 



Fig. 263. 



Fehnaiochiomis luetti/, ofei-i. 

 Nanna Kru. 



8. PELMATOCHROMiS OOPLEIFEH. 



Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 10-t, and Pois=s. Bass. Oongo, p. 437 (1901); 



St«ind. Uenksflir. Ak. "W'ien, Ixxxix. 1913, p. 58, fig. 

 Pelmatochroinis luettikofen, part., Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1904, 



p. 286. 



Depth of body 2j to 2\ times in total length, length of head 2f to 2f 

 times. Head neaily twice as long as broad ; snout rounded, with 

 straight or slightly concave upper profile, a little broader than long, as 

 long as or a little longer than diameter of eye, which is 3^ to 4^ times 

 in length of head, equals interorbital width, and exceeds pr?porbi(al 

 depth ; mouth moderately large, extending to below anterior border of 



