. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. PHRACTUEA. 503 4. PHRACTURA INTERMEDIA, sp. n. Depth of body 8 to 10 times in total length, length of head 5 to 5|- times. Head 1 ^ times as long as broad, rugose above, covered with thin skin ; snout % length of head, obtusely pointed, projecting a little beyond mouth; space between the two nostrils equally distant from end of snout and from eye; latter directed upwards, 6 to 7 times in length of head, twice in interocular width ; maxillary bar
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. PHRACTUEA. 503 4. PHRACTURA INTERMEDIA, sp. n. Depth of body 8 to 10 times in total length, length of head 5 to 5|- times. Head 1 ^ times as long as broad, rugose above, covered with thin skin ; snout % length of head, obtusely pointed, projecting a little beyond mouth; space between the two nostrils equally distant from end of snout and from eye; latter directed upwards, 6 to 7 times in length of head, twice in interocular width ; maxillary barbel ^ length of head, mandi- bulars shorter. Occipital process 2 to 2\ times as long as broad, widely separated from interneural shield. Dorsal I 6; first ray as long as or a little longer than head; second dorsal very small, above last rays of anal. Anal II 7-8. Pectoral as long as or a little longer than head, not reaching ventral; latter reaching origin of anal or a little. Pliractura intermedia. Type. beyond. Caudal with crescentic notch. Caudal peduncle depressed, § to f total length. Head and body often covered with wart-like tubercular papilla?. 24-26 dorsal and 17-19 ventral scutes, very narrow on the body, larger on caudal peduncle (11 or 12 last), which has a very narrow naked strip on the side. Brownish above, usually speckled with darker, and with three or four more or less regular dark bars across the back, one or two blackish bars on the dorsal and on the anal, and usually a blackish spot on the pectoral and on the ventral; usually a blackish blotch on each lobe of the caudal. Total length 95 millim. Soiith Cameroon. 1-10. Types. 11. Skel. 12-14. Types. 15-17. Types. 18. Type. Ja R. at Bitye. Libi R., affl. o£ Ja R. Kribi R. Nyong R. G. L. Bates, Esq. (C).. 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 ori
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