. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 56 :. specimens. The principal difference from //. sexfasciatas appears to be that the head is only o or 3|- times in the total length. 1). 11; A. 15 ; 8c. 27. 15. HArLOCHILUS CHAPERI. Fwcilia (non Gill), Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 18G4, p. 30G. Ilaplocldhis , Giinth. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 213 (18Gt)). L)'iph(ii/s iiifrofasciatiis (non Giinth.), Cope, Troc. Anier. Fliilos. Soc. xi. 1870, p. 457. Jlaplochilns chaperi, Sauv. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 188
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 56 :. specimens. The principal difference from //. sexfasciatas appears to be that the head is only o or 3|- times in the total length. 1). 11; A. 15 ; 8c. 27. 15. HArLOCHILUS CHAPERI. Fwcilia (non Gill), Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 18G4, p. 30G. Ilaplocldhis , Giinth. Cat. Fish. vi. p. 213 (18Gt)). L)'iph(ii/s iiifrofasciatiis (non Giinth.), Cope, Troc. Anier. Fliilos. Soc. xi. 1870, p. 457. Jlaplochilns chaperi, Sauv. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1882, p. 323, jd. v. fig. 5 ; Arnold, Woch. Aq. Terr. 1908, p. 297, pi. — ; Ehnle, Bl. Aq. Terr. 1910, p. 809, fig. Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, 3J to 4 times in total length. Head fiat above ; snout rounded, as long as eye; mouth directed u])wavds, lower jaw slightly projecting; eye 3^ to 3J times in length of head, \ to | interorbital width ; prjeorbital barely ^ diameter of eye. Dorsal 7-8, originating twice as far from occiput as from root of caudal, above middle of anal; longest rays about f length of head in male, shorter in female. Anal 14-15. Pectoral f to ^ length of head, extending a little beyond root of ventral; latter equally distant from end of snout and from root of caudal. Caudal as long as head, rounded or roundcd-subacuminate, some of the rays slightly produced in males. Fiir. JlaplocJiiJas cliaperi. S, Sierra Leone. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 25-27 scales in longitudinal series, 20 round body in front of ventrals ; lateral line indicated by an interrupted scries of pits. Brown above, sometimes with carmine spots; yellowish beneath ; six or seven black vertical bars on each side, the first at the eye or on the gill-cover; one often present between the pectoral and the ventral, two or three above the anal, the la^t at the base of the caudal; only the last or last two extending to the upper surface of the body ; the scales of the back
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