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8 CYPBINODONTIM. 



Caudal rounded, slightly shorter than head. Caudal peduncle 1£ times 

 as long as deep. 28 scales in longitudinal series, 22 round body in 

 front of ventrals. Yellowish, sides tinged with carmine; a carmine 

 streak on each side of the head, through the eye, and round the chin ; 

 another below the eye ; gill-membranes, pectorals, and ventrals edged 

 with carmine ; dorsal and anal with a longitudinal streak and some 

 carmine spots ; caudal bordered all round with carmine, with three bars 

 of the same colour. 



Total length 32 millim. 



South Cameroon. 

 1. Type. Nyong River. G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



18. HAPLOCHILUS ELEGANS. 



Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 113, pi. xlvii. fig. 2 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 315 (1901). 



Depth of body 4-|- to 5 J times in total length, length of head 3i to 

 of times. Head flat above; snout as long as eye; mouth directed 

 upwards, lower jaw projecting ; eye 3 to 3^ times in length of head, 

 H times in interorbital width; preeorbifal very narrow. Dorsal 8, 



Pig. 43. 



Haplochilus elegans. 

 6 , type (A. M. C). 



originating twice as far from anterior border of eye as from root of 

 caudal, above middle of anal produced into a filament in males. Anal 

 14-15, produced like the dorsal. Pectoral f length of head, nearly 

 reaching base of ventral ; latter a little nearer end of snout than caudal. 

 Caudal forked, upper and lower rays produced into filaments in the male. 

 Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. 30-32 scales in longi- 

 tudinal series, 20 round body in front of ventrals ; lateral line indicated 

 by a series of pits. Yellowish or pale olive, brown on the back, most 

 of the scales edged with carmine ; vertical fins with carmine dots and 

 edged with carmine or dark purple. 



Total length 40 millim. 



Upper Congo. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1-3. Types. Bikoro, L. Tumba. M. F. Delhez (C). 



4-5. ,, Coquilhatville. , s 



