FUNDULUS. 20 



between eye and lip very narrow, the latter forming an angle fitting into 

 a notch close to the former. Anal 14-15, exactly opposite to dorsal. 

 Pectoral § length of head, not quite reaching base of ventral, which is 

 small and midway between end of snout and base of caudal. Caudal 

 acuminate, bifurcate in the middle in male. Caudal peduncle If times 



Pis. 19. 





v*&~* 



Fattdulus batesii. 

 6 , type. 



as long as deep. 33-35 scales in longitudinal series, 24-26 round body 

 in front of ventrals; lateral line represented by a series of pits. Male 

 olive-brown, profusely spotted with crimson ; a crimson streak from eye 

 to eye round the chin ; dorsal and anal fins dark purplish, anal edged 

 with lighter ; pectoral paler, edged with crimson ; caudal broadly edged 

 with yellow above and beneath. Female yellowish olive, with small 

 crimson spots. 



Total length 60 millim. 



South Cameroon (Congo Basin). 



1-2. Types. Ja R.. at Bitye. G. L. Bates, Esq. (0.). 



3-8. Types. Bumba R., at Assobam. ,, 



6. FUNDULUS GULABIS. 

 Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii. p. 623, pi. xxxvii. figs. 2 & 3 ; Pcllegr. Bull. 

 Mus. Paris, 1907, p. 321 ; Paul Arnold, Bl. Arj. Terr. 1908, p. 58.5, pi. — . 

 figs. 2 & 3; Traber, op. cit. 1910, pp. 247, 469, figs., and 1911, p. 251; 

 Stansch, Woch. Aq. Terr. 1911, p. 422, pi. — . fig. ; Arnold, t. c. p. 403; 

 M. Fischer, t. c. p. 501, fig. ; Arnold, t. c. p. G03 ; Starkloff, Bl. Aq. Terr. 

 1913, p. 179. 



Depth of body 3-^- to 4§ times in total length, length of head 3 \ to 

 3g times. Head flat above; snout short and broad, as long as eye; 

 mouth directed upwards ; lower jaw projecting ; eye 3| to 4| times in 

 length of head, 1§ to 2 times in interorbital width ; space between eye 

 and lip j to ^ diameter of former. Dorsal 15-16, originating at equal 

 distance from head and from base of caudal, or a little nearer the 

 former; longest rays f to once length of head. Anal 16-18, opposite 



