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CHARACINIDiE. 



of base of ventral, a little nearer caudal than end of snout ; longest ray 

 as long as or a little shorter than head. Anal III 18-20. Pectoral f 

 to -| length of head, reaching or nearly reaching ventral. Caudal 

 forked. Caudal peduncle a little longer than deep. Scales with 

 radiating and arborescent or anastomosing- canals, 25-28 |i 2 between 



Fig. 153. 



3&SS3HffiB& 





Alesles chaperi. 

 Type, after Sauvage (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1882). 



lateral line and root of ventral. Silvery, back olive ; a black band on 

 caudal peduncle, extending on caudal fin ; dorsal and caudal red. 



Total length 90 millim. 



Gold Coast to Benin. — Types in Paris Museum. 



1-5. Types. Assini, Gold Coast. M. M. Chaper (C.) ; 



Paris Museum (E.). 

 R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (0.) ; 



Dr. A. G-iinther (P.). 

 K. B. N. Walker, Esq. (C.) ; 



Dr. A. Giinther (P.). 

 R. D. Gardner, Esq. (P.). 



6. Ad. 



7. Ad. 



8. Ad. 



Kotchwah P., Gold Coast. 

 Akropon, Gold Coast. 

 Ethiope Pi. at Kwale. 



11. ALESTES LATERALIS. 



Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 130, pi. xlviii. fig. 2 (1900), and Poiss. 



Bass. Congo, p. 153 (1901). 

 Alestes natalensis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xiv. 1904, p. 155. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, of to \\ times in total length. 

 Head twice as long as broad, a little longer than deep ; snout, shorter 

 than eye, which is lateral and 3 times in length of head ; adipose eyelid 



