12G MOKMYKID.E. 



Anal 36-38, equally distant from extremity of ventral and from base of 

 caudal. Pectoral obtusely pointed, | length of head, a little over twice 

 length of ventral, and extending beyond base of latter. Caudal scaled, 



Pig. 105. 



Genifomjfnts donivji. 

 Type (A. M. C). \- 



with rounded lobes. Caudal peduncle 3 times as long as deep, J to | 

 length of head. 78-82 scales in lateral line, 20^6 ^^ transverse series on 

 body, ^.^_^\ in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 12 round caudal 

 peduncle. Brownish above, lighter beneath. 



Total length 450 millim. 



Upper Congo. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1. One of the types. Upoto. Capt. Wilverth (C). 



2. Skcl. „ ,, 



3. 4-6. Ad. & hgr. Monsembe. Rov. J. II. AVeek.«^ (P.). 

 7. Hgr. Kutn, L. Leopol.l II. M. P. Delhez (('.). 

 8-9. Ad. k yg. Upper Congo. Brussels University. 



0. MORMYRUS. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 522 (part.); Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 18()4, p. l.'JO ; Boid^ng. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 812, Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 109 (1901), and Fish. 



Nile, p. 59 (1907). 

 Srrophicephalus, Svvainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. ii. p. 187 (1839). 

 Mormi/)'odes, Gill, 1. c. 

 Solenomormi/nts, Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Amsterd. (2) viii. 1874, p. 3G8. 



Teeth in the jaws small, notched, few (5 to 12 in the upper jaw, 8 to 

 14 in the lower) ; minute conical teeth on the parasphenoid and on the 

 tongue ; mouth terminal. Nostrils moderately far apart, remote from 

 the eye. Body moderately elongate ; ventral fins equally distant from 

 the pectorals and from the anal, or nearer the former. Dorsal lin much 



