CG M0KMYKID,1<:. 



slightly projecting beyond mouth ; mouth small, subinferior, its width 

 ^ to |- length of head ; teeth feebly notched, 5 in upper jaw, 6 in 

 lower; nostrils nearly equally distant from end of snout and from eye, 

 anterior on a level with centre of latter, posterior with lower border ; 

 eye small, J length of snout, f-J interorbital width. Dorsal 16-20, its 

 length 4 to f its distance from head, originating above 8th to 10th ray of 

 anal. Anal 21-26, a little longer than dorsal, nearer base of caudal than 

 base of ventral. Pectoral pointed, | length of head, If times length 



Fig. 48. 



MdrcitisenidS hitujisleiia'. 

 Type, after Giiiitlier (Ann. & Mag. N. 11. 1896). %. 



of ventral, not reaching base of latter. Caudal densely scaled in the 

 basal half, with pointed lobes. C'audal })ed uncle 2^ to 3 times as long 

 as deep, f length of head. 55-65 scales in lateral line, ^-^ in trans- 



8 0. 



ver.se series on body, ,j ^ in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 

 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown. 



Total length 150 mdlim. 



Old Calabar to Mayombe. 



1. Type. 01(1 Cahihar. Mi.s.s Kingsley (C). 



2. Ad. Krihi R., S. Cameroon. G. L. Bates, E-scj. (C). 



3. Ad. Ja R. at Bitye, Cameroon. ,, 

 4-*.). Ad. & hgr. Benito R., Spani.sh Guinea. ,, 



10. Hgr. (Typo ]\Iarslies of Kop-iyialaCu, IMajor C'al.ra (('.). 



of M. cahra'.') Mayombe. 



5. MARCUSENIUS SPHECODES. 



Mormyrops sphckodes, Sauv. Bull. Soc. Pliilom. (1 ) iii. 1878, p. 101, and N. Arch 



Mus. (2) iii. 1880, p. ')'), pi. ii. Wrr, [. 

 Monni/riis sphecodes, G Until. Ann. & Ma^. N. 11. (l!) xvii. 18iK), p. 280. 

 Marcusenius sphecodes, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 703. 



Depth of body equal to or a little less than length of head, 5 to 6 

 times in total length. Head once and \ as long as deep ; snout rounded, 

 ^ to \ length of head ; mouth small, subinferior, its width I lengtli of 



