ANABAS. 



Gl 



Pectoral as long as head. Ventral produced into a filament, reaching 

 fifth or sixth anal spine. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle merely in- 

 dicated. Scales rugose and strongly ctenoid, 27-28 g; lateral lines Trirr. 

 Brownish, with 6 or 7 regular dark bars with wavy edges, wider than 

 the interspaces; spinous dorsal and anal edged with blackish, the 

 former with several oblique dark streaks ; outer half of ventrals black. 

 Total length 79 millim. 



Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). 

 Mr. J. Paul Arnold (P.). 



Congo. 





1-3. Tvpes. 



Monsembe, Upper Congo 



4. Ad. 



Boraa, Lower Congo. 



Fie. 37. 



^^^^WY* Wk 



Anabas petherici. 

 Type(F.K). J. 



11. ANABAS PETHERICI. 



Ctenopoma petherici, part., Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xiii. 18G4, p. 211, xx. 



18G7, p. 110, and Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 208, pi. i. fig. A (1869). 

 Anabas petherici, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) iii. 1899, p. 243, and Fish. 



Nile, p. 442, pi. lxxxiii. fig. 1 (1907) ; Pellegr. Poiss. Bass. Tchad, p. 120, 



fig. (1914). 



Depth of body 2j to 1\ times in total length, length of head 

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

 which is 4 to 4§ times in length of head and about \\ times in inter- 

 orbital width; maxillary extending to below anterior third of eye; 

 palatine teeth present; praeorbital entire; a few small seme may be 

 present at the angle of the prseoperculum ; interoperculum and sub- 

 operculum finely serrated ; operculum with two groups of strong serrae, 



