566 



S1LUE1D.E. 



reaching anal. Caudal rounded. Brown above, yellow beneath, with 

 small dark spots ; five transverse series of more or less confluent black 

 spots on the body ; dorsal and anal with small black spots. 



Fig. 284. 



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Parauclienoglanis macrostoma. 

 Type, after Pellegrin (I. &). |. 



Total length 240 millim. 

 Ogowe. — Type in Paris Museum. 



23. AUCHENOGLANIS. 



Auchenaspis (non Fgerton), Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. 1863, p. 101 ; 



Gunth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 137 (1864). 

 Awthenoglanis, Gunth. Zool. Rec. i. p. 165 (1865) ; Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, 



p. 294 (1901), and Fish. Nile, p. 344 (1907). 

 Oxyglanis, Vincig. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) xix. 1898, p. 249. 



Body moderately elongate, feebly compressed. Dorsal and anal fins 

 short, the former composed of a spine and 7 or 8 branched rays, and 

 followed by a very long adipose fin. Pectoral fin with a spine. Ventral 

 fin with 6 rays, just behind the vertical of the dorsal fin. Three 

 pairs of barbels : maxillary and two mandibulars. Nostrils widely 

 separated from each other, the anterior tubular, on the upper lip, the 

 posterior slit-like. Eye supero-lateral, with free border. Pryemaxillaries 

 small ; maxillaries, hidden in the lip, comparatively large, bordering 

 the mouth. Jaws with villiform teeth, which may be reduced to 

 small groups ; palate toothless. Grill-membranes free, feebly notched. 

 Air-bladder large, free. 



