ANABAS. -ro 



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

 present; prseorbital and preeoperculum entire; strong spines on inter- 

 operculum, snboperculura, and opercnlurn ; latter with a deep notch, 

 and another between it and the suboperculum. 6 very short gill-rakers 

 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVIII-XIX 10-11 ; spines 

 equal from the sixth, rather more than \ length of head ; longest soft 

 rays J length of head. Anal VII 10, similar to dorsal. Pectoral nearly 

 | length of head. Ventral not reaching anal. Caudal rounded. 

 Caudal peduncle nearly twice as deep as long, the distance between 

 dorsal and caudal a little greater than diameter of eye. Scales rugose 

 and strongly ctenoid, 33-34 ^; lateral lines jf^B- Olive, very dark 

 above ; more or less indistinct dark bars on posterior part of body. 



Total length 105 millim. 



Ubanghi. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 

 1. One of the types. Yembe R. at Banzyville. Capt. Royaux (C). 



Fig. 31. 



Anabas pellegrini. 

 Type (A. M. C). f. 



6. ANABAS NIGROPANNOSUS. 



Ctenopoma nigropannosum, Reichen. Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. 1875, p. 147. 

 Ctenopoma gabonense, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xvii. 1896, p. 269, pi. xiii. 



fig. C ; Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1899, p. 358. 

 Anabas nigropannosiis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 242, and Poiss. 



Bass. Congo, p. 373 (1901) ; Steind. Denksehr. Ak. VVien, Ixxxix. 1913, 



p. 49. 



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

 3£ times. Snout rounded, hardly as long as eye, which is 4 to 5 times 

 in length of head and 1^ to If times in interorbital width ; maxillary 



