.-2 ANABA^'TID.E. 



as deep as long, the distance between dorsal and caudal about i length 

 of head. Scales rugose, partly cycloid, partly ctenoid, 27-29 jqih ■> 

 lateral lines '^. Brown above, lighter beneath, often spotted all over 

 with black ; blackish lines radiating from the eye ; spinous dorsal with 

 black markings ; lobe between opercular spines black. 

 Total length 120 millim. 

 Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony. 



l-:5. Types. I'ort; ElizaLeth. 



4-6. Types. -, 



7-10. Types. 

 II. Skel. 

 \2. Hot. :■' 



H. A. Spencer, Esq. (P.). 

 U. West, Esq. (P.). 



l^i.'. 29. 



Auahas haiiisii. 

 Buffalo li. s. 



3. ANABAS BATNSII. 



Saiulelia hains'd, t'listehi. Meir.. Poiss. Afr. Austr. p. 37 (1861) ; Bouleng. Ann. 



k Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 243. 

 ('tenopoma microlepidotiim, Giinth. Cat. Fish. iii. p, 565 (1861). 

 Spirobranchus bainsii, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. EL. (4) xviii. 1876, p. 67. 

 Anahas bainsii, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 1905, p. 53. 



Depth of body 3 to o^ times in total length, length of head 2| to 3 

 lime^. Snout rounded, as long as or slightly longer than eye, which 

 is 4 to 5f times in length of head and 1 to IJ times in interorbital 

 width ; maxillary extending to below centre of eye ; palatine teeth 

 present; prfeorbital, prseoperculum, suboperculum, and iiiteroperculum 

 not denticulate ; operculum with a deep notch, between two spines or 

 groups of spines. 10 or 11 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior 



