ANABAS. 59 



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long, as long as eye. Scales rugose, strongly ctenoid, 25-30 g^; lateral 



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lines 4^. Brownish or olive, with 6 to 9 more or less distinct dark 

 cross-bands ; young with a round blackish spot at base of caudal. 



Total length 75 millim. 



South Cameroon to Consjo. 



1-6. Ad. & hgr. Kribi R., S. Cameroon. G. L. Bate?, Esq. (C). 



7-11. Ad. & hgr. Zima Country, „ 



12-16. Ad. & hgr. Nyong R., 

 17-19. Ad. & yg. „ at Akonolinga, S. ,, 



Cameroon. 



20-24. Ad. Ja R., S. Cameroon. 



25-26. Types. Gaboon. 



27. Ad. Larnbarene, Ogowe. Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 



28. Ad. Lindi R., Upper Congo. M. M. Storms (C.) ; 



Brussels Museum (P.). 

 29-30. Ad. Avakubi, Aruwimi. Dr. C. Christy (C). 



31-32. Ad. & hgr. Banzyville, Ubanghi. Capt. Royaux (C). 



33. Ad. Dnngu, Uelle. < 'apt. Hutereau (C). 



3-1. Ad. Between Arebi and Aba, Uelle. ,, 



Anahas ansorgii. 

 Type (A. M. C). 



9. ANABAS ANSORGII. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 23, pi. xvii. fig. 7 (1912). 



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

 Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is 3f to 4 times in 

 length of head and equals or a little exceeds interorbital width; 

 maxillary extending to below anterior fourth of eye ; no palatine teeth ; 

 prseorbital, prreoperculum, interoperculum, and suboperculum entire ; 

 2 to 5 small spines above and one below opercular notch. 7 or 8 very 

 short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XVII-XVIII 

 7 ; last spine longest, h length of head ; median soft ray produced into 



