ANABAS. 



■JO 



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

 present; prteorbital and praeoperculura entire; strong spines on inter- 

 operculum, snboperculum, and operculum ; latter with a deep notch, 

 and another between it and the snboperculum. 6 very short gill-rakers 

 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVIII-XIX 10-11 ; spines 

 equal from the sixth, rather more than i length of head ; longest soft 

 rays i length of head. Anal ^'11 10, similar to dorsal. Pectoral nearly 

 4 length of head. Ventral not reaching anal. Caudal rounded. 

 Caudal peduncle nearly twice as deep as long, the distance between 

 dorsal and caudal a little greater than diameter of eye. Scales rugose 

 and strongly ctenoid, 33-34 f ; lateral lines JI^J-J- Olive, very dark 

 above ; more or less indistinct dark bars on ]:)ostcrior part of body. 



Total length lOo millini. 



Ubanghi. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren, 

 ]. One of the types. 



Yembe R. at Banzvville. 



Capt. Boyaux (C). 



Fig. 31. 





A nahas pelJegrhu. 

 Type (A. M. C). 



G. ANABAS NIGROPANNOSUS. 



Ctenopoma nigropannosum, Reichen. Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl.. 1875, p. 117. 

 Ctenopoma gabonense, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N". H. (6) xvii. 1896, p. 269, pi. xiii. 



fig. C ; Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1899, p. 358. 

 Anahas nigropannosus, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 212, and Poiss. 



Bass. Congo, p. 373 (1901) ; Steind. Denkschr. Ak. Wien, Ixxxix. 1913, 



p. 49. 



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

 Sj times. Snout rounded, hardly as long as eye, which is 4 to 5 times 

 in length of head and 1^ to If times in interorbital width ; maxillary 



