CHILOGLANIS. 



485 



separated on the median line, forming 4 or 5 transverse series ; 8 man- 

 dibular teeth ; maxillary barbel scarcely longer than eye, lower labials 

 shorter still. Dorsal I 5; spine not serrated, | length of head. 

 Adipose fin low, | as long as its distance from rayed dorsal. Anal III 7. 

 Pectoral spine f length of head. Ventral extending to origin of anal. 

 Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. 

 Pale brownish above, with four irregular dark cross-bands connected by 

 a dark lateral stripe, whitish beneath ; two dark bars across the anal ; a 

 dark bar at the base of the caudal, another across each lobe of the fin, 

 and a dark streak along the lower lobe. 



Total length 55 millim. 



Mathoiya River (Tana System), Kenya district. 



!• Type. Mathoiya R. S. L. Hinde, Esq. (P.). 



7. CHILOGLANIS BATESII. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xiv. 1904, p. 19. 



Body somewhat depressed in front, compressed behind, its depth 5 to 

 6 times in total length. Head depressed, 1^ times as long as broad, 

 its length 3 times in total length ; eye directed upwards, in second half 

 of head, 5 to 6 times in length of head and equal to or a little less than 

 interorbital width, which exceeds the distance between eye and posterior 



Fig. 363. 



Chiloglanis batesii. 



Type. 



3" 



nostril ; praemaxillary teeth in two large oval groups, well separated on 

 the middle line, forming 3 or 4 transverse series; a group of 8 to 12 

 mandibular teeth ; maxillary barbel as long as eye, lower labial barbels 

 shorter still. Dorsal I 5 ; spine not serrated, f to ^ length of head. 

 Adipose low, its base barely \ its distance from the rayed dorsal. 

 Anal III 5-6. Pectoral spine not serrated, about \ length of head. 



