CHILOGLAXIS. 48 L 



between eye and posterior nostril ; prsem axillary teeth in two large 

 contiguous groups, forming 4 or 5 transverse series ; a group of 7 to 9 

 mandibular teeth ; maxillary barbel | length of head, longer than 

 the lower labials. Dorsal I 5 ; spine not serrated, not quite ^ length 

 of head. Adipose fin low, its base about § its distance from rayed 

 dorsal. Anal III 6-7. Pectoral spine not serrated, y length of 

 head. Ventral extending to a little beyond origin of anal. Caudal 

 peduncle 2-^ times as long as deep. Dark brown above and on the 

 sides, with three yellowish bars, the first in front of the dorsal fin, the 

 second above the ventral, the third on the caudal peduncle ; lower parts 

 white. 



Total length 40 millim. 



Modjo River (Webi Shebeli System), Southern Ethiopia. 



1. One of the types. Modjo R. Prof. 0. Neumann and 



Baron 0. von Erlanger (C). 



3. CHILOGLANIS NEUMANNI, sp. n. 

 Cldloglanis deckenii (non Peters), Hilgend. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii. 1905, p. 411. 



Body cylindrical in front, compressed behind, its depth 4 to 4^ times 

 in total length. Head depressed, 1J to 1^ times as long as broad, its 

 length 3 to 3^ times in total length ; eye directed upwards, in second 

 half of head, 6 to 7 times in length of head, nearly twice in interorbital 

 width, which is greater than the distance between eye and posterior 



Fig. 359. 



Chiloglanis neumanni. 

 Type, f 



nostril ; two widely separated oval groups of prremaxillary teeth, forming 

 3 or 4 transverse series ; two series of mandibular teeth, 6 to 8 in each ; 

 maxillary barbel about J length of head, a little longer than outer lower 

 labial. Dorsal 1 5 ; spine not serrated, f to f length of head. Adipose 

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