ALESTES. 



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arborescent or anastomosing canals, 26-33 ^|, 2 between lateral line and 

 root of ventral. Silvery or pale golden, dark grey or brown on the 

 back ; sometimes a blackish spot above lateral line, behind gill-opening, 

 and another on caudal peduncle, sometimes extending as a streak along 

 median rays of caudal ; dorsal greyish, usually with a little pink or red ; 

 ventrals and anal white or yellow, usually with a band of red ; caudal 

 red, orange, or yellow, the base and the edge blackish. 



Total length 230 millim. 



Lower Nile to Lake Victoria, Lake Rudolf, Chad Basin, West Africa 

 from the Senegal to Cameroon. — Type in Senckenberg Museum, Frank- 

 fort (M.). 



1. Hgr. Girgeh, Lower Nile. 



2-7, 8-15. Hgr. & yg. Near Luxor. 

 16-25. Hgr. & yg. Between Luxor and Assuan. 



L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



26-35. Ad., hgr., & 



Assuan. 



11 



yg- 







36. Ad. 



Between Assuan and Shellal. 



)) 



37-40. Hgr. 



Derr, Upper Nile. 



5> 



41-43. Ad., hgr., 



Anebi, ,, 



)? 



&yg- 







44, 45-47. Ad., hgr., 



Wady Haifa. 



?) 



&yg- 







48-49. Ad. 



Upper Nile. 



J. Petherick, Esq. (C). 



50-54. Ad. & hgr. 



Khartum. 



V 



55-57. Ad., types of 



»> 



11 



A. ruppellii. 







58. Skel. 



» 



11 



59. Ad. 



Wad Medine, Blue Nile. 



L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



60-63. Ad. 



Bosaires, ,, 



11 



64-66. Hgr. 



>> » 



Capt. S. Flower (P.). 



67-68. Hgr. 



Between Khartum and 



Mr. P. C. Zaphiro (C.) ; 





Sobat B. 



W.N. McMillan, Esq. (P.) 



69. Ad. 



Jebelain, White Nile. 



L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



70. Hgr. 



Gharb-el-Aish, White Nile. 



j» 



71-77. Ad. 



Polkom, Baro E. (Sobat). 



Mr. P. C. Zaphiro (C.) ; 

 W. N. McMillan, Esq. (P.) 



78. Ad. 



Mouth of Lake No, White 

 Nile. 



L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



79-83. Ad. & hgr. 



Gondokoro, Bahr-el-Gebel. 



n 



84. Ad. 



Lake Victoria. 



Col. Delme Radcliffe (P.). 



85-89. Ad. 



Entebbe, Lake Victoria. 



Mr. E. Degen (C). 



90-91. Ad. 



Bunjako. ,, 



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