202 CYPKINHLE. 



Anal III 14. Scales 46 fj, 2 between lateral line and ventral. No 

 markings. 



Total length 110 millim. 



Ogowe. — Type in Berlin Museum. 



11. BARILIUS KINGSLEY^. 

 Barilius bible (non Joannis), Gunth. Ann. & Mag. X. H. (6) xvii. 18%, p. 277, 



pi. xv. fig. C. 

 Barilius kingsleyce, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 103 (1899), and Poiss. 



Bass. Congo, p. 233 (1901). 

 Depth of body 4J to 5 times in total length, length of head of to 4 

 times. Head 2 J to 2| times as long as broad, with feebly curved upper 

 profile; snout pointed, not projecting beyond mouth, as long as or a 

 little longer than eye, which is 3^ to 4 times in length of head; inter- 

 orbital width 3 to 3| times in length of head ; mouth extending to below 



Fig. 177. 



Barilius kingsleyce. 

 Type, after Gliuther (Ann. & Mag. TNl. H. 1896). 



centre or posterior third of eye ; no barbels ; naked space between 

 prseoperculum and suborbitals not half the width of third suborbital. 

 Gill-rakers few, rudimentary. Dorsal II— III 7, originating midway 

 between occiput and root of caudal, or a little nearer latter, its posterior 

 half or two-thirds above anal ; anterior rays longest, about f length of 

 head. Anal III 14-17, anterior rays much longer than posterior, about 

 as long as longest dorsals. Pectoral acutely pointed, a little shorter 

 than head, not reaching, or nearly reaching ventral. Caudal forked. 

 Caudal peduncle twice as. long as deep. Scales with radiating striae, 



8-— 9— 



49—51 ftsf, 2-2-| between lateral line and ventral, 14 round caudal 

 peduncle. Breeding male with pearl -like tubercles on body, and very 

 small spinose tubercles on snout and chin. Silvery, the back bluish or 



