AMPH1LIUS. 357 



root of pectoral ; outer mandibular barbel § length of head, inner f . 

 Gill-rakers rather long, 7 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal I 6, 

 much nearer end of snout than root of caudal. Adipose dorsal low, 

 about twice as long as rayed dorsal, its length about f its distance from 

 latter. Anal III 5-6. Pectoral slightly shorter than head. Ventral 

 as long as pectoral, far behind base of dorsal. Caudal feebly emarginate. 

 Caudal peduncle as long as deep. Brown above, with more or less 

 distinct blackish spots, whitish beneath ; fins greyish, dotted with 

 blackish. 



Total length 08 millira. 



East Africa (Pangani River System). 



1-2. Types. Usambara, in rivulet running down from Dr. P. Krefft (P.). 

 Anani Hills to Sigi River. 



4. AMPHILIUS PLATYCHIR. 

 Pimelndus piatycliir, Giinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 134 (18G4). 

 Chimarrhoglanis leroyi, Vaill. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1897, p. 82. 

 Anoplopterus platychir, Pieff. Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 33 (1896) ; Bouleng. 



Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) i. 1898, p. 255, and Trans. Zool. Soc. xv. 1898, 



p. 24. 

 Amphilius piatycliir, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc 1905, i. p. 64. 

 Pimelodus (Amphilius) uranoscopus, part., Hilgend. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii. 1905, 



p. 411. 



Depth of body 5| to 6| times in total length, length of head 4 to 4|- 



Fier. 277. 



Amphilius platychir. 



Type. 



3" 



times. Head much depressed, slightly longer than broad ; snout broadly 

 rounded, as long as postocular part of head; eye very small, 7 or 8 times 

 in length of head, 2 to 2^ times- ia interocular- width ; posterior nostril 



