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Annals of the South African Mu&ewni. 



Head nearly \\ times as long as deep, with curved upper profile; 

 snout a little more than | length of postorbital part of head ; chin 

 slightly swollen; eye small, 10 times in length of head, about -^ 

 length of snout and a little more than ^ interorbital width. 



Dorsal 63, originating well in advance of the ventrals and 4 r L 

 times as long as anal. Pectorals ? length of head, with rounded 

 angles. Ventrals a little more than ^ length of head. Anal 18, 

 originating nearer to base of caudal than to base of pectorals. 

 Caudal densely scaled (damaged in specimen) ; caudal peduncle 

 1^ times as long as deep and - length of head. 88 scales in lateral 



FIG. 9. Mormyrus ancliieta. 



line, ||- in transverse series on body, if in transverse series between 

 dorsal and anal fins, 22 round caudal peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), dark grey above, lighter below. 



One specimen, 335 mm. in length, from the Zambezi River, near 

 Livingstone. (A. Stephenson.) 



It is also reported from Angola. 



FAMILY PANTODONTID^. 



PANTODON. 



Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac., 1876, p. 195 ; Bouleng., Poiss. Bass. Congo, 



p. 121, and Cat. Preshw. Fish. Afr., i., p. 151 (1909). 

 "Body moderately elongate, compressed, the back, as well as 

 the head, flattened, keeled below ; scales large ; lateral line distinct, 

 canals straight and simple. Mouth lai'ge, with small sharp teeth ; 

 similar teeth on the palate (vomer, palatines, pterygoids) and on 

 the tongue. Nostrils widely separated, the posterior large and close 

 to the eye. A very short dorsal fin; anal fin longer and inserted 



