Add 



SILURID.E. 300 



AMPHIL1US ATESUENSIS, Blgr. 



5-6. Ad. Tano R., Gold Coast. Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell (r.). 



7. Ad. Near Dnnkwa, Gold Coast. .. 



9 a. AMPHILIUS LAMPII. 

 Pietschmann, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. Ixvi. 1913, p. 190, pi. ii. fig. 1. 



Depth of body 8 times in total length, length of head 4| to 5 times. 

 Head much depressed, slightly longer then broad ; snout, rounded- 

 subtruncate, as long as postocular part of bead ; eye very small, about 

 10 times in length of head, 2 to 2tj times in interocular width ; posterior 

 nostril nearer eye than end of snout ; maxillary and outer mandibular 

 barbels about \ length of head. Dorsal I 6, much nearer end of snout 

 than root of caudal. Adipose dorsal long and low, confluent with 

 caudal. Anal III 6. Pectoral nearly as long as head. Ventral inserted 

 well behind vertical of dorsal. Caudal very feebly emarginate. Brown, 

 lighter beneath, with scattered black spots. 



Total length 100 millim. 



Mountain-streams near Harrar, Abyssinia. — Types in Wiesbaden 

 Museum. 



Differs from all other species in the confluence of the adipose dorsal 

 and caudal fins and in the very feeble emargination of the latter, and 

 constitutes a link between AmpMUus and Paramphilius. 



22. PARAUCHENOGLANIS, Blgr. 

 1 «. PARAUCHENOGLANIS ANSORGII. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. 3, p. 20, pi. xxii. fig. 3 (1912). 



Depth of body 5f times in total length, length of head 3£ times. 

 Head much depressed, 1^ times as long as broad, smooth above ; snout 

 broadly rounded, subtruncate, f length of head ; occipital process very 

 short, broadly separated from the interneural plate, which is very small 

 and covered with skin ; eye superior, 11 times in length of head ; mouth 

 broad, terminal ; dentition as in P. guttatus. Maxillary barbel as long 

 as head, reaching anterior third of pectoral spine, outer mandibular 

 longer, nearly reaching extremity of pectoral. Gill-rakers rather long, 

 10 on lower part of anterior arch. Humeral process short, triangular, 

 striated. Dorsal I 7 ; spine smooth, a little less than ^ length of head 



