88 MOEMTEID^. 



1. STOMATORHINUS PUNCTICULATUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. G9, pi. xxxi. fig. 3 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 84 (1901). 

 Depth of body 3 to 3J times in total length, length of head 4 times. 

 Head hardly longer than deep; snout rounded, strongly projecting 

 beyond mouth, f length of head ; mouth small, its width 5 times in 

 length of head ; 7 teeth in upper jaw, 8 in lower; eye very small, -J 



Fitr. 70. 



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Stomatorlilnus inmctlculutas. 

 Type (A. M. C). f 



length of snout, ^ interorbital width. Dor>al 17-18, a little more than 

 I as long as its distance from head. Anal 21-22, 7th ray corresponding 

 to 1st of dorsal, slightly nearer base of ventral than base of caudal. 

 Pectoral pointed, slightly shorter than head, twice length of ventral, 

 reaching nearly extremity of latter. Caudal with long, obtusely pointed 

 lobes. Caudal peduncle 3^ times as long as deep, J to f length of head. 

 52-55 scales in lateral line, i|ri4^^ transverse series on body,i5|) ii^ trans- 

 verse series between dorsal and anal, 16 round caudal peduncle. Purplish 

 brown, dotted all over with blackish ; dorsal and anal fins darker in 

 front. 



Total length 87 mil.im. 



Lower Congo. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1. One of the types. Boma. M. P. Delhez (C). 



2. Ad. Loango. M. De Meuse (C). 



2. STOMATORHINUS WALKERI. 



Monmjriis walker'i, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 1867, p. 116, pi. iii. fig. C. 



Petrocephalus afms, Sauv. Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iii. 1878, p. 101. 



Mormyrus afnis, Sauv. N. Arch. Mus. (2) iii. 1880, p. 52, pi. ii. fig. 2 ; Giinth. 



Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xvii. 1896, p. 283. 

 St omatorl Linus walkeri, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 799. 



Depth of body 3J to 3f times in total length, length of head of times. 



