. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. !14 SILtJRID^. head; band of prsemaxillary teeth 6 times as long as broad, as broad as and close to the crescentic band of vomerine teeth; nasal barbel about ^ length of head ; maxillary barbel 2-J- times length of head, extending beyond root of ventral; inner mandibular barbel f length of head, outer f. Dorsal I 8, longest branched ray nearly as long as head; last ray above inner ray of ventral. Adipose fin 5 times as long Fig. Bugrus uhangensis. Type (A. M. C). ^. as dee
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. !14 SILtJRID^. head; band of prsemaxillary teeth 6 times as long as broad, as broad as and close to the crescentic band of vomerine teeth; nasal barbel about ^ length of head ; maxillary barbel 2-J- times length of head, extending beyond root of ventral; inner mandibular barbel f length of head, outer f. Dorsal I 8, longest branched ray nearly as long as head; last ray above inner ray of ventral. Adipose fin 5 times as long Fig. Bugrus uhangensis. Type (A. M. C). ^. as deep, much longer than rayed dorsal and twice and \ its distance from the latter. Anal 11, 7 rays branched. Pectoral | length of head, its spine strong and feebly denticulate on inner edge. Caudal deeply forked, both lobes prolonged into filaments. Caudal peduncle scarcely longer than deep. Brown above, with a few black dots, whitish beneath ; a large blackish spot behind the shoulder. Total length 300 millim. Ubanghi.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 15. CHRYSICHTHYS. Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. iv. 1«58, p. GO, and Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. 186:5, p. 95 ; Gunth. Cat. Fish. v. p. 70 (18G4) ; Bouleng. Poiss. Buss. Congo, p. 277 (15)01), and Fish. Nile, p. 333 (li)07). Mclanodadi/lus, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. 1803, p. 05. Clivijsohagrus, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, i. p. 290 (18'JD). Body moderately elongate, feebly compressed. Dorsal and anal fins short, the former consisting of a spine and 5 or 6 branched rays and followed by an adipose fin. Pectoral fin with a spine. Ventral fin. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Boulenger, Albert, 1858-1937. Codicote, Herts. [Eng : Wheldon and Wesley
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