SILUfilD-E. 



2S5 



middle, is a little broader than the pree maxillary band. Xasal barbel 

 nearly as long as head; maxillary barbel If times as long as head, 

 reaching beyond pectoral ; inner mandibular barbel f length of head, 

 outer 1J. Gill-rakers thick, 16 in number. Clavicles striated, covered 

 with a thin skin. Dorsal 100, its distance from occipital process 

 ■§• length of head, very narrowly separated from caudal. Anal 75, very 

 narrowly separated from caudal. Pectoral -k length of head, the spine 



Pi?. 174. 





Clarias oxycephalus. 

 Type. 



serrated on both sides and f the length of the fin. Ventral if times 

 as distant from caudal as from end of snout. Caudal \ length of head. 

 Uniform olive. 



Total length 225 millim. 



South Cameroon. 

 1. Type. Nyong E. G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



Differs from C. werneri principally in the more pointed snout. 



24 a. CLARIAS ESAMESJE. 

 Bouleiig. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) viii. 1911, p. 372. 



Depth of body 7 times in total length, length of head 5 times. Head 

 ]-§- times as long as broad, smooth above; occipital process angular; 

 frontal fontanelle twice as long as broad ; occipital fontanelle smaller, 

 partly on occipital process ; eye 3 times in length of snout, 5-^ times in 

 interorbital width ; band of prsemaxillary teeth barely 3 times as long 

 as broad ; vomerine teeth granular, forming a large fan-shaped patch, 



