Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . series of teeth, the outer strong, compressed, bi- or tricuspid, theanterior larger, the inner small, sharply pointed, the two series separatedby a considerable space. Cheek nearly entirely covered by the sub-orbitals ; nostrils near the eye, close together, separated by a valvularflap; gill-membranes narrowly united to isthmus. Body elongate,compressed. Scales small, strongly ciliated; lateral line straight, alongthe middle of the side ; no scaly process at base of ventral. Dorsal finwith 15 rays, above th
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . series of teeth, the outer strong, compressed, bi- or tricuspid, theanterior larger, the inner small, sharply pointed, the two series separatedby a considerable space. Cheek nearly entirely covered by the sub-orbitals ; nostrils near the eye, close together, separated by a valvularflap; gill-membranes narrowly united to isthmus. Body elongate,compressed. Scales small, strongly ciliated; lateral line straight, alongthe middle of the side ; no scaly process at base of ventral. Dorsal finwith 15 rays, above the ventrals; anal with 13 or 14 rays; adiposedorsal fin small. Congo. 1. PARAPHAGO Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 76, pi. xxxiv. fig. 2 (1899), and Poiss. , p. 174 (1901). Depth of body 5| to 6 times in total length, length of head 3£ to 3§times. Head 3 times as long as broad, rugose above ; snout once and£ diameter of eye, which is 4£ to 5 times in length of head and equalsinterorbital width ; mouth extending to below anterior third of eye ; Fig. Piiraphar/o rostra!US,Type (A. M. C). 15 or 16 teeth on each side in the outer series of both jaws. Gill-rakers very small, rudimentary. Dorsal III 12, originating a little inadvance of ventrals, at equal distance from end of snout and from caudal. PARAPHAGO.— MESOBORUS. 245 longest ray half length of head. Anal III 10-11. Pectoral shorterthan ventral, hardly f length of head. Caudal forked, with obtuselypointed lobes. Caudal peduncle nearly 3 times as long as deep. Scales87-90 -~-, 9 between lateral line and root of ventral. Olive above,whitish beneath ? a median and two lateral series of black spots, thelower forming vertical bars across the lateral line; three more or lessregular black streaks across the dorsal; a black spot on the adipose flu ;a black streak on the middle rays, and three oblique ones on each lobeof the caudal. Total length 130 millim. Upper Congo (Lake Leopold II.).—Types in
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