THE FISHES OF THE UNITED STATES ECLIPSE EXPE-DITION TO WEST AFRICA. By Henry W. Fowler, 0/ the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. INTRODUCTION. The collections on which this paper is based are primarily con-tained in the United States National Museum. The first and most extensive is that obtained by the United States Eclipse Expedition to West Africa in 1889, with William Harvey Brown as naturalist. Collections of fishes were secured by this expedition at the Azores, Cape de Verde Islands, Ascension Island, Sierra Leone, Ashantee, Angola, and Cape Town. An interesting collection was received from Rolla P. Currie and a few specimens from Messrs. O. F. Cook and G. N. Collins, collected in Liberia. I have further included several sm.all collections from Liberia and the French Kongo, long in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Dr. J. P. Moore sent a few from the French Kongo, from the Biological School of the University of Penn-sylvania, and others were sent, through Capt. C. F. Silvester, from Princeton University, obtained in Kamerun. These are all indicated under their respective captions, where reference is given at the beginning of the principal faunal papers. Five imperfectly-known species are figured, together with the following, which appear to be new : Julis azorensis. Ahudefduf ascensionis. Mormyrus goheeni. Labeo curriei. Tilapia savagei. Eutropius eclipsis. Caranx angolensis. The types representing these species are all in the United States National Museum. In further explanation of the figures all the new forms are drawn from the types, and the others in the National Museum are: Belone trachura Valenciennes. 42150. Liosaccus cutaneus (Giinther). 42143. Proceedings U. & National Museum, Vol. 56— No. 2294. 195
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