FUNDULUS. 25 



3^ times. Head flat above ; snout short and broad, a little shorter 

 than eye ; mouth directed upwards ; lower jaw projecting ; eye 3 to 

 3^ times in length of head, lg- to 1J times in interorbital width; space 

 between eye and lip about j diameter of former. Dorsal 11-13, 

 originating midway between centre or posterior border of eye and root 

 of caudal, posterior rays produced in males, sometimes much longer 

 than head. Anal 13-14, originating slightly in advance of dorsal, 

 similar to the latter. Pectoral | to f length of head, reaching base 

 of ventral or a little beyond ; ventral small, midway between end of 

 snout and base of caudal or a little nearer the former. Caudal rounded, 

 with one or two upper and lower rays produced in males. Caudal 

 peduncle about 1^ times as long as deep. 26-29 scales in longitudinal 

 series, 22-24 round body in front of ventrals ; lateral line absent, 



Fig. 15. 



Fandulus Invitlatus. 

 d , Old Calabar. 



or indicated by a series of pits. Yellowish olive or brownish, more or 

 less spotted with crimson, frequently with two dark bands, the upper 

 proceeding from the tip of the snout, through the eye, to the root of the 

 caudal, the lower from below the eye, through the base of the pectoral ; 

 vertical fins edged with purplish red in the male. 



Total length (52 millim. 



Cameroon, Calabar. — Type in Stockholm Museum. 



1-5. Ad. & hgr. Kvibi E., S. Cameroon. G. L. Bates, Esq. (0.). 

 G-15. Ad. & hgr. Tributaries of Lobi It., S. „ 



Cameroon. 



16-17. Ad. BanabeTi Swamps, inland of Mr. B. Schroder (P.). 



Duala, Cameroon. 



18-19. Ad. Old Calabar. Mr. J. Paul Arnold (P.). 



2, FUNDULUS LOENNBERGII. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 1903, p. 440. 



Depth of body 4 to 4 A times in total length, length of head 3f to 

 4 times. Head flat above; snout short and broad, as long as eye; 



