354 



SILUK1D.E. 



[p. 359. 

 6. A. lovgirostris, BIgr., 



Maxillary barbel longer than bead ; length of snout 

 1£ times interocular width ; caudal peduncle 



not longer than deep 5. A. hargeri, BIgr., p. 353. 



B. Head longer than broad ; snout obtusely 



pointed, its length i (young) to 3 times 



interocular width ; base of adipose dorsal 



not more than 1^ times that o£ rayed dorsal. 



II. Dorsal entirely or partly above the ventral-;. 



A. Head but slightly longer than broad ; snout broadly rounded ; interocular 



width 2^-3 times diameter of eye. 

 Length of head 4-4^ times in total length ; caudal 



peduncle a little longer than deep ; caudal [p. 360. 



forked, with rounded lobes 1 . A. atesuensis, BIgr., 



Length of head 3f-3J times in total length ; caudal 



peduncle as long as deep ; caudal feebly emar- 



ginate 



B. Head much longer than broad ; snout 



obtusely pointed ; interocular width less 

 than diameter of eye 9. 



8. A. brevis, BIgr., p. 361. 



[p. 362. 

 A. angustifrons, BIgr., 



1. AMPHILIUS URANOSCOPUS. 



Anoplopterus uranoscopus, Pfeff. Jahrh. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. vi. 2, 1889, p. 16, x. 2, 



1893, p. 33, pi. ii. figs. 1 & 2, and Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 33 (1896). 

 Amphilius uranoscopus, Bonlong. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, i. p. 64. 



Pw. 274. 



Amphilius uranoscopus. 

 Type, after Pfeffer (Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Aust. 1893). 



Depth of body 6 times in total length, length 

 of head 5^ times. Head much depressed, a little 

 longer than broad ; snout broadly rounded, nearly 

 a length of head ; eye very small, about 12 times 

 in length of head and 3 times in interocular width ; 



