ANABAS. 53 



arch. Dorsal XV-XVII 9-10 ; spines increasing in length to the ninth 

 or tenth, which measures about j length of head ; lougest soft rays # 

 to § length of head. Anal VII-VIII 9-10, similar to dorsal. Pectoral 

 f to § length of head. Yentral not reaching anal. Caudal rounded, 

 some of the rays sometimes somewhat produced. Caudal peduncle 

 1^ to lj times as deep as long, the distance between dorsal and caudal 

 about ^ length of head. Scales rugose, partly cycloid, partly ctenoid, 

 33-35 jy^je I lateral lines gr^. Olive-brown or dark green above, 

 yellowish beneath ; a more or less distinct dark oblique streak from 

 below the eye to the angle of the praeoperculum. 



Total length 180 millim. 



Eastern parts of Cape Colony. — Type lost. 



1. Type of Ctenopoma (Jape of Good Hope. Army Medical College (P.). 



microlepidotum. 

 2-6. Ad. & hgr. Buffalo R., Port Eliza- Major H. Trevelyan (P.). 



both. 



7. Skel. 



4. ANABAS MULTISPINIS. 



Ctenopoma multispinis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1844, p. 34, Miiller's Arch. f. 



Anat. u. Phys. 1846, p. 481, pi. x. figs. 10-15, and Keise Mossamb. iv. p. 16, 



pi. ii. fig. 3 (1868). 

 ? Anabas scandens (non Daldorff), Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mosainb. p. 270 (1858). 

 Spirobranchus smithii, Bianc. op. cit. p. 279, pi. x. (1859). 

 Ctenopoma multispine, Giintb. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 373 (1861). 

 Anabas multispinis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 1905, pp. 53 & 616, 



and Tr. Zool. Soc. xviii. 1911, p. 408. 



Depth of body 3| to 4 times in total length, length of head 3^ to 

 3§ times. Snout rounded, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which 

 is 4 to 5 times in length of head and 1 to 1-^ times in interorbital width ; 

 maxillary extending to below centre or posterior third of eye ; palatine 

 teeth present; praeorbital and praeoperculum entire; interoperculum 

 also entire, or posterior part serrated ; suboperculum and operculum 

 more or less strongly serrated or spinose ; operculum more or less 

 strongly notched. 6 or 7 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior 

 arch. Dorsal XVII-XVIII 8-9 ; spines equal from the fourth or fifth, 

 about \ length of head ; longest soft rays \ to f length of head. Anal 

 V1II-X 8-9, similar to dorsal. Pectoral f to |- length of head. 

 Ventral not reaching anal. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle about 



