. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. ? .^ \ ^£r-^x? THE ANiNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. [SEVEXTII SERIES.]No. 60. DECEMBER 1902. LIX.— Desoiptions of new Fishes from the Collection madehi/ Mr. E. Degen in Abyssinia. By G. A. Boulenger, The splendid collection of Abyssinian fishes brought homeby Mr. E. Degen is one of exceptional interest from tiie factthat it contains examples of every one of the species describedby Riippell in 1835*, of which only some of the types arepreserved, in a dry condition, in the Senckenberg Museum atFrankfort a.
. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. ? .^ \ ^£r-^x? THE ANiNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. [SEVEXTII SERIES.]No. 60. DECEMBER 1902. LIX.— Desoiptions of new Fishes from the Collection madehi/ Mr. E. Degen in Abyssinia. By G. A. Boulenger, The splendid collection of Abyssinian fishes brought homeby Mr. E. Degen is one of exceptional interest from tiie factthat it contains examples of every one of the species describedby Riippell in 1835*, of which only some of the types arepreserved, in a dry condition, in the Senckenberg Museum atFrankfort a. M., and which had not been rediscovered sincethe expedition of that illustrious zoologist and traveller ; andthat it has brought to our knowledge the existence in thosewaters of a Loach, a group of which no African representa-tive was on record, and of an astonishing multiplicity of speciesof the genus Barbus, as well as of two new Silurids of thegenus Clarias. Twenty-one species are here described asnew ; fifteen of these belong to the section of which
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