14 



GOBlID.i:. 



Total length 35 millim. 



Uelle E., Upper Congo.— Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 

 1-2. Two of the types. Dangu, Upper Uelle. Oapt. Hutereau (C). 



7. ELEOTRIS KRIBENSIS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xx. 1907, p. 52. 



Body cylindrical or a little compressed, its depth 4 to 5 times in 

 total length, length of head 3 to 3| times. Head broader than 

 deep, naked; snout broad, rounded, as long as or a little longer 

 than eye, which is 4 to 4 J times in length of head and equal to or 

 a little less than interorbital width ; lower jaw strongly projecting ; 

 maxillary extending to below anterior third or centre of eye; no 

 canine teeth; no pricopercular spine. Dorsals VI, I 8-9, narrowly 



Eleotris knhensls. 

 Type. X 1|. 



separated from each other, longest rays not longer than head. Anal I 7, 

 opposite to second dorsal. Pectoral § to f length of head, as long as or 

 a little longer than ventral. Caudal rounded, a little shorter than head. 

 Caudal peduncle 1| to If times as long as deep. Scales smooth on the 

 nape, strongly ciliated on the body, 32-35 in longitudinal series, 12 

 between origin of dorsal and anal. Yellowish to brown, dotted with 

 darker, with or without five or six ill-defined dark cross-bands ; a 

 blackish bar at the root of the caudal fin ; fins brown or blackish and 

 white-edged in males, Avhitish with blackish spots in females. 



Total length 50 millim. 

 South Cameroon. 



1-20. Types. 

 21-25. Ad. & hgr. 

 26. Hgr. 



Kribi R. 



Ja R. 



Bumba R. at Assobam. 



G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 





