366 



SILUB1D-E. 



reaching anal. Caudal rounded. Brown above, yellow beneath, with 

 small dark spots ; five transverse series of more or less confluent black 

 spots on the body ; dorsal and anal with small black spots. 



Fig. 284. 





Parauclienoglanii macrostcmd . 

 Type, after Pellegrin (I. c). , 



Total length 240 millim. 

 Ogowe. — Type in Paris Museum. 



23. AUCHENOGLANIS. 



Auchenaspis (non Egerton), Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. 1863, p. 101 ; 



Giinth. Cat, Fish. v. p. 137 (18G4). 

 Auchenoglanis, Giinth. Zool'. Rec. i. p. 165 (1865) ; Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, 



p. -I'M (1901), and Fish. Nile, p. 311 (1907). 

 Oxyglank, Vincig. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) xix. 1898, p. 249. 



Body moderately elongate, feebly compressed. Dorsal and anal fins 

 short, the former composed of a spine and 7 or 8 branched rays, and 

 followed by a very long adipose fin. Pectoral fin with a spine. Ventral 

 fin with 6 rays, just behind the vertical of the dorsal fin. Three 

 pairs of barbels : maxillary and two mandibulars. Nostrils widely 

 separated from each other, the anterior tubular, on the upper lip, the 

 posterior slit-like. Eye supero-lateral, with free border. Prsemaxillaries 

 small ; maxillaries, hidden in the lip, comparatively large, bordering 

 the mouth. Jaws with villiform teeth, which may be reduced to 

 small groups ; palate toothless. Gill-membranes free, feebly notched. 

 Air-bladder large, free. 



