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Show 628 DR. A. G0NTHER ON REPTILES AND [Nov. 7, Several specimens are sent from Fort Johnston; they were collected in November ; their length is from 18 to 20 lines. Allied to Haplochilus petersi (Sauvage), but differing in various particulars. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE LIII. Chromis squamipinnis, p. 621. PLATE LIV. Fig. A. Chromis johnstoni, p. 622. B. Chromis svbocularis, p. 621. C. Chromis tetrastigma, p. 623. PLATE LV. Fig. A. Chromis lethrinus, p. 622. B. Chromis callipterus, p. 623. PLATE LVI. Fig. A. Chromis kirki, p. 624. • B. Hemichromis livingstonii, p. 625. C. Chromis williamsi, p. 624. PLATE LVII. Fig. A. Hemichromis modestus, p. 625. B. Hemichromis afer, p. 626. 2. Descriptions of the Reptiles and Fishes collected by Mr. E. Coode-Hore on Lake Tanganyika. By Dr. A. G U N T H E R , F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. [Received November 7, 1S93.] (Plate LVIII.) Mr. Coode-Hore, who was resident for several years on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, brought home in 1889 a small collection of Snakes and Fishes. The specimens had greatly suffered during the long voyage to England, but some of them were in a sufficiently good state of preservation to be acquired for the British Museum and to be described here. I have deferred an account of them in the hope of seeing them supplemented by subsequent collections; but as it seems desirable to work them out in comparison with those from Lake Nyasa and other parts of Eastern Equatorial Africa, I will not allow the present occasion to pass without giving an account of them. The discovery of two species of Mastacembelus, connecting the Asiatic species with the West African, is only one of the interesting facts which a more extended investigation of the Fish-fauna • of this remarkable lake is sure to reveal. |
