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CHAEACIXID^. 



of base of ventral, a little nearer caudal than end of snout ; longest ray 

 as long as or a little shorter than head. Anal III 18-20. Pectoral ^ 

 to I length of head, reaching or nearly reaching ventral. Caudal 

 forked. Caudal peduncle a little longer than deep. Scales with 

 radiating and arborescent or anastomosing canals, 25-28 g^, 2 between 



Fisr. 153. 







■"S^sjU 



Alesles cliaperi. 

 Type, after Sauvage (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1882). 



lateral line and root of ventral. Silvery, back olive ; a black band on 

 caudal peduncle, extending on caudal fin ; dorsal and caudal red. 



Total length 90 millim. 



Gold Coast to Benin. — Types in Paris Museum. 



M. M. Chaper (C.) ; 



Paris Museum (E.). 

 R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (G.) ; 



Dr. A. Gunther (P.). 

 7. Ad. Akropon, Gold Coast. P. B. N. Walker, Esq. (C.) ; 



Dr. A. Gunther (P.). 

 R. D. Gardner, Esq. (P.). 



1-5. Types. 

 6. Ad. 



Assini, Gold Coast. 

 Kotchwah R., Gold Coast. 



8. Ad. 



Ethiope It. at Kwale. 



11. ALESTES LATERALIS. 



Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 130, pi. xlviii. fig. 2 (1900), and Poiss. 



Bass. Congo, p. 153 (1901). 

 Alestes natalensis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xiv. 1904, p. 155. 



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

 Head twice as long as broad, a little longer than deep ; snout shorter 

 than eye, which is lateral and 3 times in length of head ; adipose eyelid 



