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ANAEANTID.E. 



extending to below centre of eye ; palatine teeth present ; praeorbital 

 entire or feebly denticulate behind ; angle of prseoperculum feebly 

 serrated in adult ; strong spines on interoperculum, suboperculum, and 

 operculum ; latter with a deep notch, and another between it and the 

 suboperculum. 6 or 7 very short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior 

 arch. Dorsal XIX-XX 9-10; spines subequal from the fourth or fifth, 



Fig. 32. 



JZ?"?&39», 





Anabas nigropannogus. 

 Type of Ctenopoma yabonense. 



about -| length of head; longest soft rays f- to f- length of head. 

 Anal IX-XI 9-10, spines and soft rays a little shorter than in dorsal. 

 Pectoral | to f length of head. Ventral not reaching anal. Caudal 

 rounded. Caudal peduncle twice as deep as long, the distance between 

 dorsal and caudal at least as great as diameter of eye. Scales rugose 

 and strongly ctenoid, 30-33 ^ ; lateral lines pEjg. Olive-brown above, 

 whitish beneath ; membrane in opercular notch black. 

 Total length 170 millim. 



Gaboon and Congo. — Types in Berlin Museum. 



J. 



Type 



of Ct. 



pabo- 



Gaboon. 





nense. 







2. 





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5? 



3. 



Skel. 







;? 



4. 



Ad. 







Lambarene, Ogowe. 



5. 



3. 



Ad. 

 Ad. 







Kaika N'Zobe, Chilo- 



ango. 

 Cbiloango Town. 



7. 



Ad. 







Lnali R. (Cbiloango) 

 at Lnndo. 



E. B. N. Walker. Esq. (P.). 



Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C.) . 

 Major Cabra (C). 



Dr. W. J. Ansorge (CY). 



