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23. HAPLOCHILUS HUTEREAUL 

 Bouleng. Rev. Zool. Afr. ii. 1913, p. 159. 



Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 3^ to 3£ times. 

 Head flat above ; snout broad, rounded, shorter than eye ; mouth 

 directed upwards, lower jaw projecting; eye nearly as long as postocular 

 part of head, about § to f- interorbital width ; praeorbital not quite J 

 diameter of eye. Dorsal 8-9, originating twice as far from end of snout 



Fig. 48. 



Tlaplochilus hutermui. 



Type. 



or anterior border of eye as from root of caudal, above middle of anal ; 

 longest rays as long as head or a little shorter. Anal 13-15. Pectoral 

 | to f length of head, extending beyond root of ventral; latter nearer 

 end of snout than root of caudal. Caudal rounded, as long as head. 

 Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 23-24 scales in longitudinal series, 

 16 round body in front ofventrals; lateral line absent. Yellowish, the 

 scales edged Avith dark brown ; fins white, with four or five blackish 

 bars or transverse series of blackish spots on the posterior half of the 

 dorsal and anal and on the caudal. 



Total length 35 millim. 



Uelle River, Upper Congo, and Lake Mweru. — Types in Congo 

 Museum, Tervueren. 

 1. One of the types. Dungu, Uelle. M. Hutereau (C). 



24. HAPLOCHILUS LOATI. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 44G, and Fish. Nile, p. 417, 

 pi. Ixxix. fig. 7 (1907). 



Depth of body 3| to 5 times in total length, length of head 4 to 4£ 

 times. Head flat above; snout very short, shorter than eye; mouth 

 directed upwards, lower jaw projecting ; eye less than 3 times in length 

 of head, as long as postorbital part of head, \\ times in interorbital 

 width ; praeorbital about ^ diameter of eye. Dorsal 7-8, originating 

 twice as far from eye as from root of caudal, above middle of anal ; 



