AMPHILIUS. 



355 



posterior nostril midway between eye and end of snout ; maxillary barbel 

 longer than head, reaching to midway between head and origin of 

 dorsal, outer mandibular a little shorter than head. Dorsal I 6, much 

 nearer end of snout than root of caudal. Adipose dorsal low, nearly 

 twice as long as rayed dorsal, about half as long as its distance from 

 latter. Anal II 5. Pectoral slightly longer than head. Ventral nearly 

 as long as pectoral, far behind base of dorsal. Caudal feebly emarginate. 

 Caudal peduncle as long as deep. Brown, upper parts clouded with 

 darker. 



Total length 150 millim. 



Ushonda and Mhonda, Upper ranges of Wami River, German East 

 Africa. — Types in Hamburg Museum. 



2. AMPHILIUS GRANDTS. 



Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, i. p. 63, pi. vii. fig. 3. 



Amphilius leroyi (non Vaill.), Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvii. 1905, 



p. 177. 

 Pimelodus (Amphilius) urano&copus, part., Hilgend. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii. 1905, 



p. 411. 

 Depth of body 5-j to 6§ times in total length, length of head 4 to 4f 

 times. Head much depressed, not or but slightly longer than broad ; 

 snout broadly rounded, |ora little more than | length of head ; eye 

 very small, 9 to 15 times in length of head, 2\ to 3|- times in interocular 

 width ; posterior nostril midway -between 

 eye and end of snout ; maxillary barbel f 

 to | length of head, reaching or nearly 

 reaching root of pectoral; outer mandi- 

 bular barbel ^ to f length of head, inner 



Tig. 275. 



3 







about \. Gill-rakers moderately long, 7 



or 8 on lower part of anterior arch. 



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Amphilius grandis. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1905). 



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