. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 12 GOBIID/E. 4. ELEOTRIS TOHIZONiE. Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxxxii. i. 1880, p. 245, pi. ii. fig. 2. Eleotris butis, part., Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. pi. fig. 2 (1891). JEleotris peel oralis, Regan, Rev. Suisse Zool. ii. 1903, p. 415, pi. xiii. fig. 2. Head and body compressed; depth of body equal to length of head, 3f to 4 times in total length. Head longer than deep, scaly ; snout shorter than eye, which is 3| to 4 times in length of
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 12 GOBIID/E. 4. ELEOTRIS TOHIZONiE. Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, lxxxii. i. 1880, p. 245, pi. ii. fig. 2. Eleotris butis, part., Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. pi. fig. 2 (1891). JEleotris peel oralis, Regan, Rev. Suisse Zool. ii. 1903, p. 415, pi. xiii. fig. 2. Head and body compressed; depth of body equal to length of head, 3f to 4 times in total length. Head longer than deep, scaly ; snout shorter than eye, which is 3| to 4 times in length of head and equals interorbital width ; lower jaw slightly projecting ; mouth not extending to vertical of anterior border of eye ; teeth small, in a narrow band; no canines; no prseopercular spine. Dorsals VI, I 8, widely separated from each other. Anal I 10. Pectoral f length of head, scarcely longer than ventral. Caudal rounded-subtruncate. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. 25-27 scales in longitudinal series, 9-10 in transverse series. Brownish ; a blackish bar at base of pectoral; small dark spots on second dorsal and dark streaks across caudal. Total length 85 millim. Madagascar.—Types in Vienna -*^* Eleotris tohizonce. Type, after Steindachner (I. c). 5. E-LEOTRIS NANA. Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 446, and Fish. Nile, p. 538, fig. (1907) ; Pellegr. Poiss. Bass. Tchad, p. 137, fig. (1914). • Body cylindrical or a little compressed, its depth nearly equal to length of head and 4 times in total length. Head as broad as deep, naked; snout broad, rounded, as long as eye, the diameter of which is 4 times in length of head and nearly equals interorbital width ; lower jaw projecting; maxillary extending to below anterior border of eye; no canine teeth ; no prasopercular spine. Dorsals V, I 9, well separated from each other, longest rays about § length of head. Anal I 7, its origin a little behind that of second dorsal. Pectoral about
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