AXABAS. 



G 



greater part covered with scales. Caudal peduncle merely indicated. 

 Scales finely striated and ctenoid, 28 f ; lateral lines ^''- Dark 

 brown, ventrals and caudal edged with white ; a darker band on each 

 side of the head, passing through the eye ; another, oblique, below 

 the eye. 



Total length 100 tnillim. 



Yenibe River, Ubanghi. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



Fig. 41. 



Anahas oxyrJiynchus. 

 Type (A. M. 0.). |. 



16. ANABAS OCELLATUS. 



Cteiiopoina petherici (non Griinth.), Scliiltli. Tijdschr. Nederl. Dierk. Ver. (2) iii. 



181)1, p. 84. 

 Ctenopoma ocdlatum, Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1899, p. 359. 

 Ctenopoma acutirostre, Pellegr. t. c. p. 3(J0. 

 Ctenopoma deuticidatum, Pellegr. t. c. p. 3G1. 

 Anahas loeeksii, part., Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 2-13, and Poiss. 



Bass. Congo, p. 377 (1901). 

 Anahas ocellatus, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 190.5, p. 53. 

 Anahas weeksii, Steind. Denksclir. Ak. Wien, Ixxxix. 1913, p. 51. 



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

 3 times. Snout very pointed, as long as eye ; upper profile of head 

 straight or concave; eye 3^ to 4 times in length of head, 1 to Ij times 

 in interorbital width; maxillary extending to below anterior border or 

 anterior fourth of eye ; palatine teeth present ; prasorbital entire ; angle 

 of priEopercuIum sometimes feebly serrated ; interoperculuin and sub- 

 operculum entire or serrated ; several spines above and below opercular 

 notch. to 11 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal 

 XVI-XVIII 9-12 ; spines equal from the sixth or seventh, about 



