length of the head. Two or three spines above and one below the opercular notch; suboperculum partly and indistinctly, interoperculum not serrated. Vomerine teeth developed, only traces of palatine teeth in front of the bone.
All three specimens from Kondo-Kondo.
Chromis latus, Gthr.
Warri.
The typical specimen was most likely from the same locality, the late Mr. Fraser being known to have collected in, or to have received collections from, the Niger delta.
Chromis ogowensis, sp. n.
- ? Chromis microcephalus, Sauvage, Bull, Soc. Zool. France, ix. 1884,. p. 196 (nec Bleek.).
D. 1511.A. 39.P. 13.L. lat. 27.L. transv. 3/11.
Scales on the cheek in three series. Twenty-eight notched teeth on each side of the upper jaw. The maxillary terminates some distance in advance of the vertical from the eye. The depth of the body is a little less than one half of the total length (without caudal), the length of the head a little less than one third. Eye two ninths of the length of the head, much less than the length of the snout and than the width of the interorbital space. Pectoral fin with the third and fourth rays produced and extending to the first anal spine. Caudal fin truncated, scaly. Body with indistinct cross-bands. Vertical fins blackish, the dorsal with black longitudinal stripes, longitudinal on the spinous portion, oblique on the soft; a large oval black spot behind the last dorsal spine. Ventrals black. A black opercular spot.
| millim. | |
| Total length | 170 |
| Total„ length„ without caudal | 143 |
| Length of the head | 47 |
| Diameter of the eye | 10 |
| Length of the eighth dorsal spine | 19 |
Ogowé River (Lambarene)
Hemichromis fasciatus, Ptrs.
Azuminé Creek; Ogowé River.
