CO 



AXABANTIDJE. 



Pectoral f length of 



a filament. Anal X-XI 7, similar to dorsal. 



head. Ventral produced into a filament, reaching beyond origin of anal. 



Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle extremely short, shorter than eye. 



Scales rugose, strongly ctenoid, 28-30 



2J-3 



lateral lines 



2-8 

 0-5- 



Brownish, 



with 6 or 7 regular dark brown or blackish vertical bars, narrower than 

 the interspaces ; fins greyish brown, dorsal and anal with black bars, 

 the continuation of those on the body, and with the rays terminating in 

 white filaments ; the bars indistinct in some specimens. 



Total length 63 millim. 



Chiloango. 

 1-8. Types. 



Luali R. at Lundo. 



Dr. TT. J. Ansorge (C). 



Pi S . 36. 



Anabas fasciolatus. 



Type. 



10. ANABAS FASCIOLATUS. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 242, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 375 

 (1901) ; Arnold, Wochenschr. Aq.-Terr. 1913, pp. 681, 723, figs. 



Depth of body 1\ to 2-J times in total length, length of head 3| to 

 3^ times. Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is 4 times in 

 length of head and a little exceeds interorbital width ; maxillary hardly 

 extending to below anterior border of eye ; no palatine teeth ; prae- 

 orbital, praeoperculum, and interoperculum entire ; suboperculum entire 

 or indistinctly denticulate ; 3 or 4 small spines above and 1 or 2 below 

 opercular notch. 8 or 9 very short gill-rakers on lower part of anterior 

 arch. Dorsal XVI 8-9; last spine longest, \ length of head; median 

 soft ray produced into a filament. Anal X 9-11, similar to dorsal. 



