CYPRINODONTIDiE. 



lip blackish ; fins grey, edged with black, dorsal and anal with round 

 purplish-grey spots. 



Total length 70 millim. 



Ogowe. 



1-2. Types. Masoma R., flowing into L. Agemwe Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 



at Umpokoya. 



14. HAPLOCHILUS SEXFASCIATUS. 

 Epiplalys sexfasciatus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 136 ; Cope, Proc. Amer. 



Philos. Soc. xi. 1870, p. 457. 

 Haplochilus infrafasciatus, Giinth. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 313 (1866); Steind. Notes 



Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 76 ; Lonnb. Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1895, 



p. 188. 

 Haplochilus se.vfasciatus, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, i. p. 27; Arnold, Woch. 



Aq. Terr. 1911, p. 557, fig. ; Gerlach, Bl. Aq. Terr. 1912, p. 741, fig. 

 Lycocyprinus sexfasviatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1868, p. 146. 



Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total length, length of head 3J to 3f 

 times. Head flat above ; snout rounded, as long as or slightly longer 

 than eye; mouth directed upwards, lower jaw feebly projecting; eye 3^ 

 to 3|- times in length of head, about J interorbital width ; prseorbital 

 about f- diameter of eye. Dorsal 10-12, originating twice as far from 

 occiput as from root of caudal, above middle of anal ; longest rays about 



Fig. 40. 



ffaplochilus sexfasciatus. 

 <J , Ogowe. 



§ length of head in males, shorter in females. Anal 15-17. Pectoral 

 § to ■§ length of head, extending a little beyond root of ventral ; latter 

 equally distant from end of snout and from root of caudal. Caudal as 

 long as or a little longer than head, rounded-subcarinate. Caudal 

 peduncle as long as deep. 28-32 scales in longitudinal series, 20-22 

 round body in front of ventrals ; lateral line indicated by a series of pits. 

 Brown above, yellowish beneath, with carmine dots and usually 5 to 7 

 blackish vertical bars on the body, confined, except the last, to the lower 

 part of the side; the first bar usually just behind the base of the 

 pectoral ; two bars above the anal ; a series of large black dots some- 



