. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 172 Messrs. E. Lonnberg and H. Rendahl on snout broadly rounded, its length being contained about 2\ in the length of the head. Kye very small, about 17 times in length of head, about 4 times in interorbital width. Posterior nostril a little nearer to anterior border of eye than end of snout. Maxillary barbel not quite as long as head, reaching somewhat beyond the root of pectoral. Outer mandibular barbel ^ length of head ; inner mandibular barbel nearly \. Gill-rakers 5 or 6
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 172 Messrs. E. Lonnberg and H. Rendahl on snout broadly rounded, its length being contained about 2\ in the length of the head. Kye very small, about 17 times in length of head, about 4 times in interorbital width. Posterior nostril a little nearer to anterior border of eye than end of snout. Maxillary barbel not quite as long as head, reaching somewhat beyond the root of pectoral. Outer mandibular barbel ^ length of head ; inner mandibular barbel nearly \. Gill-rakers 5 or 6 on lower part of anterior arch, moderately long. Dorsal 1 6, nearer end of snout than root of caudal, situated just in advance of the root of ventrals. Adipose dorsal low, not quite twice as long as rayed dorsal. Anal II 5. Fiff. Head of Amphilius lamani, enlarged. Pectoral § length of head. Ventral about as long as pectoral, situated entirely but not much behind dorsal. Caudal trun- cate. Caudal peduncle, if counted from last ray of anal, | as deep as long. Colour in spirit uniformly brown, the dark pigment extending over the greater part o£ the caudal as well. In its general shape, with its broad head and deep caudal peduncle, this new species to a certain degree resembles the East-African members of the genus, but its dorsal is not so far advanced as in them. With the recently described Amphilius notatus, Nichols and Griscoin *, from Faradje our * Loc. cit. p. 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 London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd
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