44 MOEMYRID.^. 



peduncle. Blackish on the back, greyish on the belly ; sides brown, with 

 darker longitudinal lines, with or without black blotches. 



Total length 340 millim. 



Upper Congo, Ogowe. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervue:cn. 

 1. Hf^r. Monsembe, U])pcr Congo. llev. J. H. Weeks (P.)- 



14. MORMYROPS MICROSTOMA. 



Bouleng. Ann. Mas. Congo, Zool. i. p. 6, pi. i. fig. 3 (1898), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1808, 

 p. 78G, and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 67 (1901). 



Depth of body 6^ times in total length, length of head 43 times. 

 Head twice as long as deep, with straight upper profile ; snout rounded, 

 projecting beyond mouth; width of mouth f length of snout; teeth 

 truncate, 14 in each jaw; eye moderate, its diameter once and ^ in 

 length of snout, twice in interocular width. Dorsal 45, nearly J length 

 of anal, originating nearly twice as far from end of snout as from base of 





Morm)jrops microstoma. 

 Type (A. M. C). f . 



caudal. Anal 70, originating considerably in advance of dorsal (ITtli 

 ray corresponding to first dorsal), and nearer head than base of caudal. 

 Pectoral rounded, J length of head. Caudal very small, scaled at the 

 base, with rounded lobes. Caudal peduncle hardly as long as deep, 

 1 length of head. 102 scales in lateral line, ]'. in transverse scries on 



DO '1;, 



body, 16 in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 14 round caudal 

 peduncle. Blackish brown. 



Total length ] G5 millim. 



Upper Congo (New Antwerp). — Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



15. MORMYROPS MARI^. 



Mormtp'iis {Mormyrops) inaricr, Scliiltluiis, Tijrlscln-. N(m1. Dierk. Yer. (2) iii. 'ISdl, 



p. 92. 

 Monnt/roj^s marirr, Bouleng. Ann. Miip. Congo, Zool. i. p. ?> (1898), Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1898, p. TSC), and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. G7 (1901). 



Depth of body 5-^ to 7 times in total length, length of head 4 to 



