MORMYROPS. " ^^ 



peduncle 24 .imes a. long as deep, J length of head. 90-93 scale, in 

 lateval line, '^ in t.an.verse .evies on body. 21-23 in tvan.ve.e 

 series between dorsal a,>d anal, 18 round cau.lal peduncle, lale 



brownish. 



Total length 410 millim. 



Upper Congo (Upoto and Sanga U.)— Type in Congo Museum, 



Tervueren. 



8 MOKMYROPS SIRENOIDES. 

 Boulon,.. Ann. M.,s. Congo, Zool. i. p. 4, ,,1. i. fig. 2 (1«^8), 1^-c. Zool. See. 1898, 

 ,, 785, ana Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. Hi (1901). 

 Depth of body C* to 8 times in total length, length of head 4, to C. 

 Head 1-; to 1| times as long as deep, with straight, dechvous upper 

 p^otile ; 'snout bounded, projectirrg a little beyond the rnonth ; wt^t^h ,^ 

 i.,uth greater than length of snout; teeth truncate 12 to U m each 

 ".w • eye very s.nall, situated in the anterior third or fourth of the head, 

 •is dianuter 3 times in length of snout, SJ to 4 times m rnterocular 



Fic. 25. 





JSlormyi-oi-is siren aides. 

 Type(A.M. C). i- 



„,idth. Dorsal 29-32, | or | length of anal, originating H as far from 

 ,he end of the snout as from the base of ^1- eaucU A a 7 



orioinatin.' considerably iu advance of dorsal (Us loth oi 14th , ay 

 ;: nchng to first dorsal), and at nearly ecptal distance from end of 

 snout and ro^t of caudal. Pectoral rounded, about | eng h f h 

 Caudal small, densely scaled, .ith rounded lobes. ^^J^:^ 

 21 times as long as deep, i length of head. 90-95 scales m lateral hue 

 L^-ll in transverse series on body. 20 in transverse series between dorsa 

 aid anal. 16-18 round caudal peduncle. U.riforn, darU brown, somewhat 



lighter beneath. 



Total length 530 millim. 



Upper Congo.-Type iu Congo Museum, Icrvucren. 

 1-3. H.r. Monsombc. Rev. J. H. A\ eeks (P,)- 



