no 



MOEMYRID^. 



series between dorsal and anal, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown 

 above, silvery white beneath ; a few irregular dark brown blotches may 

 be present on the body ; fins dark brown. 



Fiff. 89 



Onnthonenius angolensis. 

 Type. 



Total length 135 milliin. 



Angola. 



1. Type. 

 2-4. Hsr. 



Quan/a R. 



Cunene, Mossamedes. 



Dr. W. J. Aiisorcre (C). 



17. GNATHONEMUS CYPRINOIDES. 



Mormyrus cyprinoides, Linn. ^lus. Ad. Frid. ii. p. 109 (17G4), and S. N. i. p. 522 



(1766) ; Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xix. p. 265 (1810) ; Gunth. Cat. Fish. vi. 



p. 218 (1866), and Petlierick's Trav. ii. [). 251 (1860). 

 Mormyrus salahie, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. v. p. 619 (1803). 

 Mormyrus labiatus, I. Geoff r. Descr. Egypto, Poiss. p. 275, pi. vii. fig. 1 (1827) ; 



Rupp. Fortsetz. Beschr. n. Fischo Nil, p. 0, j)l. ii. fig. 2 (1832). 

 Mormyrus elongatus, Rupp. 1. c. fig. 1. 

 Mormyrus abbreciatus, Cuv. & Val. t. c p. 270. 



Mormyrops cyprinoides, Marcnsen, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. xii. 1851, p. 14. 

 Mormyrops elongatus, Marcuson, 1. c. 

 Mormyrops abbreviatus, Marcusen, 1. c. 



Mormyrojis lahialus, Marcusen, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (7) vii. 1864, no. 4, p. 137. 

 Gnathonemus cyprinoides, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1808, p. 805, Pois.-?. Bass. Congo, 



p. 96 (1901), and Fish. Nile, p. 50, pi. vi. fig. 2 k pi. vii. fig. 3 (1907). 



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

 5J times. Head slightly longer than deep, with curved upper profile ; 

 snout about \ length of head ; mouth small, on a line with lower border 

 of eye ; chin with a globular dermal appendage ; teeth minute, conical, 



