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Show 328 MR O. A. BOULENGER ON FISHES [Nov. 17, membrane of the trachea exactly as in Ophiophagus. Moreover, a kind of septum appears to divide that pouch into two, so that there are, at least, traces of metamerism. There is, however, no evidence of any connection in the past between this pouch and the lung. 3. Report on the Fishes collected by Mr. Oscar Neumann and Baron Carlo von Erlanger in Gallaland and Southern Ethiopia. By Gr. A. B O U L E N G E R , F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. [Received October 29, 1903.] (Plates XXIX.-XXXI.*) Mr. Oscar Neumann has entrusted to me for study the fishes collected on the expedition from Zeila through Southern Ethiopia to the Upper Nile in 1900-1901, of which he gave an account at the Geographical Society in June 1902, and which is printed in the 'Geographical Journal' for October 1902, with a map, to which I refer the readers for the position of the localities mentioned in this report. The fishes are all from East of the Nile system and were obtained in the following waters:- Modjo, Iraro, and Wabbi Rivers, affluents of the Webi Shebeli; Kassam, Gadschimboda, and Suksuk Rivers, affluents of the Hawash ; Maki River, flowing into Lake Zwai; Omo River, flowing into Lake Rudolf; and Lake Gandjule, south of Lake Abaia. The following list of 19 species, 4 of which are described as new, extensively supplements our scanty knowledge of the fishes of that part of Africa, based on the small collections previously made by Marquis Antinori, Capt. Bottego, Prince E. Ruspoli, and Dr. Donaldson Smith, which have been reported upon by Dr. Yinciguerra f and Dr. Giinther J. Collections had also previously been made in the Kassam and Maki Rivers by Mr. E. Degen on his way to Lake Tsana, but the five new species discovered by him and described by me § are, curiously, not represented in the collection made in those rivers by Mr. Neumann and Baron v. Erlanger. MORMYRID.E. 1. MORMYRUS KANNUME Forsk. A single specimen, from the Wabbi River. * For explanation of the Plates, see p. 334. f Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. 1883, p. 691, xxxv. 189o, p. 21, xxxvii. 1896-97, pp. 24 & 3*3. I P.Z.S. 1896, p. 217. j Ann. & Mas. N. H. (7) x. 1902. p. 421. |