3G MORMTRID.^. 



transverse series between dorsal and anal, 14 round caudal peduncle. 

 Uniform brown, lighter beneath. 



Total length 3 jO millim. 



Gold Coast. — The type specimen, from Bossumprah Kiver, wdiich 

 should be in the Liverpool Museum, could not be found by Dr. H. O. 

 Forbes, to whom I applied for information respecting it. 

 1. Ad. Kotschwah Eiver. R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (P.). 



4. MORMYROPS BREVICEPS. 

 Steind. Notes Leyd. Mas. xvi. 1894, p. GG, pi. i. fig. 2. 



Depth of body 7f times in total length, length of head 5i times. 

 Head nearly tw^ice as long as deep, upper profile slightly concave ; 

 snout rounded, upper jaw a little longer than lower ; teeth truncate or 

 slightly notched, 20 in each jaw ; eye small, its diameter J length of 

 snout. Dorsal 26, f length of anal, originating considerably nearer base 

 of caudal than head. Anal 43, originating considerably in advance 

 of dorsal (its 13th ray corresponding to first dorsal), and a little 

 nearer head than base of caudal. Pectoral a little more than h length 

 of head. Caudal rather small, with rounded lobes. Caudal peduncle 

 2J times as long as deep, J length of head. 90 scales in lateral 

 line. 



Total length 855 millim. 



S. Paul R., Liberia. — Type in Leyden Museum. 



5. MORMYROPS EXGYSTOMA. 



Ponleiig. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 3, pi. i. fig. 1 (1808), Proc. Zool. Soc. 18'.)8, 

 ]). 784, and Poiss. Btiss. Congo, p. GO (IDOl). 

 Depth of body 7 to 7J times in total length, length of head 4^ to 

 5 times. Plead nearly twice as long as deep, with straiglit, declivous 

 ui)per profile; snout rounded, projecting a little beyond mouth, the 

 width of which equals hardly § length of snout; teeth notched, 12 in 

 each jaw; eye very small, in anterior third of head, its diameter 3 times 

 in length of snout, 2J to 3 times in interocular width. Dorsal 19-20, 

 J length of anal, originating twice as far from end of snout as from base 

 of caudal. Anal 35-37, originating considerably in advance of dorsal 

 (9th ray corresponding to first dorsal) and at equal distance from 

 head and from base of caudal. Pectoral rounded, f length of head. 

 Caudal rather small, scaled at the base, with rounded lobes. Caudal 



