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AXABANTID.E. 



to dark brown, spotted with blackish, with light spots on the lower half 

 of the body and on the vertical fins, the dark and light spots sometimes 

 forming wavy vertical bars. 

 Total length 85 millim. 



Ogovve, Chiloango, Lower Congo, and Ubanghi. 

 1. Type. Lagoons on islands in M. F. Hens (0.). 



Lower Congo. 

 2-8. AJ., hgr., & yg. Luali E. (Gliiloango) at Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 



Lundo. 



9. Hot. 



Lambarene, Ogowe. 



rig. 34. 



Anahas nanus. 

 Type, after Giinther {I. c). 



8. ANABAS NANUS. 

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



fig-B. 

 Anahas maculatus (non Thomin.), Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 51 



(1882); Steind. Denksclir, Ak. Wien, Ixxxix. 1913, p. 50. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 2§ to 3 times in total length. 

 Snout rounded, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is 4 to 

 4^ times in length of head and nearly equals interorbital width ; 

 maxillary extending to below anterior fourth of eye ; no palatine teeth ; 

 prseorbital, prseoperculum, and interoperculum entire ; suboperculum 

 entire or more or less strongly denticulate ; 2 to 5 spines above and one 

 or two below opercular notch. 5 or 6 very short gill-rakers on lower 

 part of anterior arch. Dorsal XV-XVII 7-10; last spine longest, 

 about \ length of head ; longest soft rays ^ to f length of head. 

 Anal VIl-IX 9-11, similar to dorsal. Pectoral f to | length of head. 

 Ventral, in adult, produced into a filament, reaching beyond origin of 

 anal. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle 2 to 2i times as deep as 



