Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . k spot on the adipose fin ; a black streak on the middlerays, and 2 to 4 oblique ones on each lobe of the caudal. Total length 290 millim. Congo.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. L-2. Types. Leopoldville. Capt. Wilverth (C). ?,. Y 11 J5 8. Ad. Upper Congo. Brussels University. 2. EUGNATHICHTHYS Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 75, pi. xxxiv. fig. 1 (1899), and Poiss. , p. 172 (1901). Depth of body 4 J to 4|- times in total length, length of head 3|- 2 to 2| times as
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . k spot on the adipose fin ; a black streak on the middlerays, and 2 to 4 oblique ones on each lobe of the caudal. Total length 290 millim. Congo.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. L-2. Types. Leopoldville. Capt. Wilverth (C). ?,. Y 11 J5 8. Ad. Upper Congo. Brussels University. 2. EUGNATHICHTHYS Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 75, pi. xxxiv. fig. 1 (1899), and Poiss. , p. 172 (1901). Depth of body 4 J to 4|- times in total length, length of head 3|- 2 to 2| times as long as broad, 1-J- to If times as long as deep ;snout 1-g- to If times diameter of eye, which is 4 to 5 times in length ofhead and 1 to 1-g- times in interorbital width ; upper jaw extending tobelow centre of eye; naked space on cheek about j width of prEeorbital. Fiff. Eur/nrithich(hys (A. M. C). Dorsal III 8-11, originating a little in advance of ventrdls. Anal III 68-71 j^,, G or 7 between lateral line and root of as in the preceding. A median dorsal and a lateral series oflarge black spots, the latter alternating with the former and formingvertical bars; 3 black streaks across the dorsal, 2 to 4 on each caudallobe. Total length 145 millim. Congo. 1. Type. Loango, Lower Congo. M. DeMeuae(ft). 2. Yg- Stanley Pool. M. A. Greshoff (C);Utrecht University (E,). 3. Hgr. Banzyville, Ubaughi. Capt. Royaux (ft). 4. Hgr. Uerre, M. De Bauw (C.).r2 !4i CHARACINIDJE. 8. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 76 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 173,(1901). Snout moderately elongate, pointed ; mouth large ; jaws massive, theupper movable upwards; maxillary very small, not hidden under theprseorbital when the mouth is closed; praemaxillary and dentary withtwo series of teeth, the outer strong, compressed,
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