DISTICHODUS. 



277 



Red or reddish brown, belly silvery white; 6 or 7 broad blackish 

 vertical bars on the body. 



Total length 210 millim. 



Congo. 



Fig. 211. 





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"^LUjn^si 



JDistichodvs sexfasciatus. 

 New Antwerp. |-. 



1. Ad. Leopoldville, Sfanley Pool. 



2. Ad. Coquilhatville, Upper Congo. 



3. Hgr. Kutu, Lake Leopold II. 



4. Ad. New Antwerp, Upper Congo. 



5. Hgr. Monsembe, „ 



6. Hgr. Upper Congo. 



7. Type. Stanley Falls. 



Capt. Wilverth (C). 

 M. P. Delhez (C). 



Capt. Wilverth (C). 

 Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). 

 Brussels University. 

 Rev. W. H. Bentley (C). 



17. DISTICHODUS LUSOSSO. 



Schilthuis, Tijdschr. Ned. Dierk. Ver. (2) iii. 1891, p. 90 ; Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. 



Congo, p. 195 (1901). 

 Distichodus leptor/iynchus, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H, (6) xx. 1897, p. 425. 



Depth of body 2J to 3|- times in total length, length of head 3 to 

 3^ times. Head 1^ to 1-^ times as long as deep, 2 J to 3 times as long as 

 broad ; snout rounded, not compressed, longer than deep, its length greater 

 than interorbital width, IJ to 2-| diameters of eye, which is 4 to 6 times 



