CO ANABANTID-E. 



a filament. Anal X-XI 7, similar to dorsal. Pectoral f length of 

 head. Ventral produced into a filament, reaching beyond origin of anal. 

 Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle extremely short, shorter than eye. 

 Scales rugose, strongly ctenoid, 28-30 -^; lateral lines ^. Brownish, 

 ■with 6 or 7 regular dark brown or blackish vertical bars, narrower than 

 the interspaces ; fins greyish brown, dorsal and anal with black bars, 

 the continuation of those on the body, and with the rays terminating in 

 white filaments ; the bars indistinct in some specimens. 



Total length 63 millim. 



Chiloango. 

 1-8. Types. Luali R. at Lnndo. Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 



Jir,. .36. 



Aiiahas fasciolatus. 

 Type. 



10. ANABAS FASC;iOLATUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 212, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. .375 

 (1901) ; Arnold, Wochensclir. Aq.-Terr. 191.3, pp. 681, 723, figs. 



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

 3^ times. Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is 4 times in 

 length of head and a little exceeds interorbital width ; maxillary hardly 

 extending to below anterior border of eye ; no palatine teeth ; pije- 

 orbital, prseoperculum, and interoperculum entire ; suboperculum entire 

 or indistinctly denticulate ; 3 or 4 small spines above and 1 or 2 below 

 opercular notch. 8 or 9 very short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior 

 arch. Dorsal XVI 8-9; last spine longest, | length of head; median 

 soft ray produced into a filament. Anal X 9-11, similar to dorsal. 



