Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . 1. NEOBORUS Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 78, pi. xxxiv. fig. 4 (1899), and Congo, p. 180 (1901). Depth of body 5% to 6 J times in total length, length of head 3| to 3-|times. Head 3|- to 4 times as long as broad, 2 to 2\ times as long asdeep, flat above ; snout as long as or a little longer than postocular partof head ; eye 5 to 5^ times in length of head, equal to or a little greaterthan interorbital width ; upper jaw not quite extending to below anteriorborder of eye
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . 1. NEOBORUS Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 78, pi. xxxiv. fig. 4 (1899), and Congo, p. 180 (1901). Depth of body 5% to 6 J times in total length, length of head 3| to 3-|times. Head 3|- to 4 times as long as broad, 2 to 2\ times as long asdeep, flat above ; snout as long as or a little longer than postocular partof head ; eye 5 to 5^ times in length of head, equal to or a little greaterthan interorbital width ; upper jaw not quite extending to below anteriorborder of eye; 29-34 small teeth on each side in upper jaw, 22-27 inlower; 2 canines at extremity of upper jaw and 3 at extremity of lower ;naked part of cheek double the width of suborbitals. Gill-rakers verysmall, almost rudimentary. Dorsal III 13-15, originating a little behindvertical of base of ventral, longest ray hardly § length of head. Anal1II-IV 14-15. Pectoral shorter than ventral, not half length of forked, with rounded lobes, nearly entirely covered with small Fig. Neoburas (A. M. C). f scales. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. Scales 98-110 jjrrg, 8 or9 between lateral line and root of ventral. Purplish grey above, silveryor greenish on the sides; three olive bands along the side, the medianwidest, along the lateral line ; dorsal orange or grey ; caudal orange,with 6 or 7 more or less regular longitudinal black stripes. Total length 180 millim. Upper Congo.—Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 1. One of the types. Kutu, L. Leopold II. M. P. Delhez (C.). 2. Skel. Bikoro, Upper Congo. „ 3. Ad. Monsembe, „ Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.).i. Hgr. Upper Qongo. Brussels University. NEOBOEUS.—ICHT11Y0B0KUS. 251 NEOBORUS Bull. Mus. Paris, 1904, p. 219. Distinguished from the preceding by the larger eye, 4 times in lengthof head, fewer teeth (21 above and 17-18 below, on each side), thedorsal originating immediately behind vert
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