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ANABANTIDJE. 



as deep as long, the distance between dorsal and caudal about \ length 



3-4 



of head. Scales rugose, partly cycloid, partly ctenoid, 27-29 j^jj ; 

 Brown above, lighter beneath, often spotted all over 



lateral lines 



15-18 

 4-11 



with black ; blackish lines radiating from the eye ; spinous dorsal with 

 black markings ; lobe between opercular spines black. 



Total length 120 millim. 



Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony. 



1-3. Types, 

 4-6. Types. 

 7-10. Types. 



11. Skel. 



12. Hgr. 



Port Elizabeth. 



H. A. Spencer, Esq. (P.). 

 0. West, Esq. (P.). 



29. 



Anabas bainsii. 

 Buffalo E. §. 



3. ANABAS BAINSII. 



Sandelia bainsii, Casteln. Mem. Poiss. Afr. Atistr. p. 37 (1861) ; Bouleng. Ann. 



& Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 243. 

 Ctenopoma microlepidotum, Giinth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 565 (1861). 

 Spirobranchus bainsii, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) xviii. 1876, p. 67. 

 Anabas bainsii, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 1905, p. 53. 



Depth of body 3 to 3-^ times in total length, length of head 2| to 3 

 times. Snout rounded, as long as or slightly longer than eye, which 

 is 4 to 5-J times in length of head and 1 to 1| times in interorbital 

 width ; maxillary extending to below centre of eye ; palatine teeth 

 present; prseorbital, prseoperculum, suboperculum, and interoperculum 

 not denticulate ; operculum with a deep notch, between two spines or 

 groups of spines. 10 or 11 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior 



