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Caudal deeply forked, lobes pointed, lower usually a little longer than 

 upper. Caudal peduncle 1 to 1|- times as long as deep. Scales with 

 numerous anastomosing canals, 22-26 ^r. 1 or 2 between lateral line 

 and root of ventral. Brown or olive above, the scales with a darker 

 edge, silvery white or pinkish beneath and on the cheeks ; a pink band 

 often extends along the side, from the cheek to above the anal fin ; 

 some specimens with interrupted dark brown bands along the sides; fins 

 pink or orange, the caudal often edged with grey and blackish. Young 

 usually with a blackish spot on each side of the caudal peduncle, and 

 another on the shoulder. 



Total length 420 millim. 



Upper Nile, Blue Nile, White Nile, Bahr-el-Gebel, Omo, Senegal, 

 Niger, Congo. — Type in Paris Museum. 



1. Ad. 



2. Ad. 



3. Hgr. 



4. Hgr. 



5-9, 10-11. Ad. 



& yg. 

 12. Skel. 

 1 15-15, 16-30. Ad., 



hgr., & yg. 

 31. Ad. 



32-33. Hgr. & yg. 

 31. Ad. 



35-36. Ad. 



37. Skel. 



38. Ad. 

 39-44. Yg. 

 45. Skel. 

 46-47. Ad. 

 48-53. Hgr. & yg. 

 54. Yg. 



Nile. 



Kosbeh, Upper Nile. 



Khartum. 



Wad Medine, Blue Nile. 



Rosaires, ,, 



Gondokoro, Bahr-el-Gebel. 



Fujao, Victoria Nile. 



Omo R. 



(Jojeb R., Omo. 



Jcbba, Upper Niger. 



Mureji, „ 



Agberi, Lower Niger. 



Niger. 



Benue R., N. of Ibi. 



Old Calabar. 



Leopoldville, Congo. 



Dr. Riippell (P.j. 

 L. Loat, Esq. (O). 

 J. Petherick, Esq. (C). 

 L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



J. S. Budgelt, Esq. (P.). 

 ProE. 0. Neumann (C). 

 Mr. P. C. Zaphiro(O); 



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

 Dr. C. Christy (P.). 

 Capt. G. F. Abadie (P.). 

 J. S. Budgett, Esq. (P). 

 Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 



H. L. Norton Traill, Esq. (C), 

 Miss Kingsley (O). 

 Drs. Dntton, Christy, & Todd 

 (P.). 



22. ALESTES RHODOPLEURA. 

 Alestes macrolepidotus (non C. & V.), Bouleng. Tr. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, p. 25. 

 Alestes macrolepidotus, part., Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 158 (1901). 

 Alestes rhodojAeura, Bouleng, Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii 1906, p. 547, pi. xxx. fig. 3. 



Depth of body 4 times in total length, length of head 4 to ih times. 



