. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 498 SILUKID^E. reaching ventral; latter just reaching origin of anal. Caudal peduncle â f total length. Yellowish brown above, whitish beneath ; ill-defined dark bars across the back; a dark streak from the end of the snout to the eye; two dark transverse bars on the dorsal, anal, pectoral, and ventral fins. Total length 70 millim. Benguella. Fig. Doumea angolensis. Type. 1. Type. Interior of Benguella, 4000-5000 ft. Dr. F. C. Wellman (P.)
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 498 SILUKID^E. reaching ventral; latter just reaching origin of anal. Caudal peduncle â f total length. Yellowish brown above, whitish beneath ; ill-defined dark bars across the back; a dark streak from the end of the snout to the eye; two dark transverse bars on the dorsal, anal, pectoral, and ventral fins. Total length 70 millim. Benguella. Fig. Doumea angolensis. Type. 1. Type. Interior of Benguella, 4000-5000 ft. Dr. F. C. Wellman (P.). 35. PHRACTURA. Feltura (non ), Perugia, Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) x. 1802, p. 972. Phractura, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vi. 1900, p. 527, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 333 (1901). Body elongate, depressed, with extremely slender caudal peduncle; a series of imbricate scutes * along each side of the back and belly from the dorsal and ventral fins to the caudal peduncle, which may be entirely surrounded by these scutes. Two short dorsal fins, the anterior entirely in advance of the ventrals and formed of one simple, flexible, and 6 or 7 branched rays, the second opposed to the anal and adipose, with fine soft rays ; pectoral and ventral fins large, horizontally expanded, without spine, but with thickened, simple outer ray as in Doumea ; 6 ventral rays. No occipito-nuchal shield. Mouth small, inferior, surrounded with large papillose lips; no mandibular teeth ; small conical prae- maxillary teeth ; a maxillary and two mandibular barbels on each side; nostrils rather remote from each other, both with a valve; eye small, Expansions of processes of tire 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, George Albert, 1858-1937. Lon
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