40 CYPRINODONTIDJL 



below middle of dorsal. Caudal rounded. Scales 36 in longitudinal 

 series, 11 in transverse series. Olivaceous, edges of scales darker; top 

 of head darker, crossed by a lighter band in front of the eye ; opercle 

 silvery, crossed by a darkish streak behind the eye ; a faint band of 

 silvery from the opercle to the caudal along the middle of the side ; 

 5 or 6 broad blotches of brownish across the flanks, separated by rather 

 wider spaces of the lighter colour ; a vertebral darkish streak, more 

 distinct behind the dorsal ; a similar line between anal and lower edge 

 of caudal ; a band crosses the caudal near its base. 



Total length 26 millim. 



False Bay, Cape of Good Hope. — Type in Museum of Comp. Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



4. HAPLOCHILUS. 

 McClell. Asiat. Res. xix. pp. 301 & 426 (1839) ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 310 



(1866) ; Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 344 (1901), and Fish. Nile, p. 415 



(1907). 

 Epiplatys, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 136. 



Atopoclieiliclithys, Bleek. Nat. Verh. Vet. Haarlem, xviii. 1863, no. 2, p. 116. 

 Lycocyprlnus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1868, p. 146. 



Distinguished from the preceding genus by the more posterior 

 position of the dorsal fin, the origin of which is well behind that of 

 the anal. 



Fresh and brackish waters of Africa, Southern and Eastern Asia, 

 Central and South America, and the West Indies. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Dorsal 10-13 * ; scales 27-34 in a longitudinal series. 



A. Eye 2^ to 3 times in length of: head. 

 D. 10-11 ; A. 14-15 ; Sc. 28-31 ; middle 



dorsal and anal rays longest ; caudal 



peduncle 2 to 24 times as long as deep . 1. If. antinorii, Viucig., p. 44. 

 D. 10 ; A. 14-15 ; Sc. 27-28 ; middle dorsal 



and anal rays longest ; caudal peduncle 



ltj times as long as deep 2. II. myaposce, Blgr., p. 44. 



D. 10-11 ; A. 14-15 ; Sc. 27-29 ; posterior 



dorsal and anal rays longest ; caudal 



peduncle 1 to 1^ times as long as deep . 3. H. pumilus, Blgr., p. 45. 



* See also species 19 to 21 and 29 and 34 in division II. of tbis synopsis. 



