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caudal peduncle; snout, 2^ to 2 J in head, measured from its own 

 tip; eye, 7 to 8|; interorbital, 5;} to 5|; least depth hi snout length, 

 2f to 3f ; length, 295 to 334 mm. 



This species is related to Mormyrus cahallus Boulenger and Mormy- 

 rus tapirus Pappenheim, the former from the Kongo anil the latter 

 from Kamerun. The former differs in a more robust and nontuhular 

 snout and longer pectoral. It agrees with the Kamerun species in 

 the tubular snout and pectoral, but differs hi details of ihi rays, 

 and from both species it differs in the larger scales. 



(For Dr. S. M. E. Goheen, the first to collect fishes in Liberia.) 



LABEO CUKKIEI, new species. 



Head, 3i; depth, 3i ; D. ii, 10; A. ui, 5; P. r, 17; V. i, 8; scales, 

 32 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 5 scales above 



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Fig. 8.— I.abeo curriei. 



lateral line to dorsal origin and 5 belov\' to anal origin; predorsal 

 scales, 13; head width, 1^} its length; head depth at occiput about 

 IJ; snout, 1|; eye, 5J; maxillar}-, 1|; interorlntal, 2§; first branched 

 doi-sal ray, 1 +iV; first branched anal ray, 1^; upper caudal lobe, 

 1 + i; pectoral, 1|; ventral, IJ ; least depth of caudal peduncle, 1^. 



Body deep, with robust contour, compressed, deepest at dorsal 

 origin, and edges all convex. Caudal pedmicle deep, compressed 

 strongly; length about three-fifths its least depth. 



Head moderate, compressed; cheeks not much swollen. Snout 

 broad, convex over surface, long as wide. Eye small, front edge 

 about midway in head length, supero-lateral, entirely visible from 

 above but not below. Mouth broad, slightly crescentic as seen below; 

 lower jaw greatly hiferior. Maxillary to hind nostril. Lips thick, 

 fleshy, inner surface formed with transverse plicae made up of 



