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WHITE GYMNOTE. 



Gymnotus Albus. G. albus, maxilla inferiore lo?igiort, labiv 



superiore utrinque lobulo notato. 

 White Gymnotus, with the lower jaw longest, and the upper 



lip marked with a lobule on each side. 

 Gymnotus albus. Pall. Spic. Zool. 7- p. 36. 

 Gymnotus albus. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmcl. p. 1137. 



SIZE and general habit of the Carapo and fasci- 

 atus ; colour white or whitish ; scales moderately 

 large ; tail naked for about an inch, and ending in 

 a point, as in others of this tribe ; pectoral fins very 

 small ; mouth furnished on each side the upper lip 

 with a small lobule or abrupt cirrus, as it were, 

 situated at about half the distance of the gape ; 

 eyes very small ; head marked on each side by se- 

 veral pores. Native of Surinam. 



WHITE-FRONTED GYMNOTE. 



Gymnotus Albifrons. G. dor so anterior e niveo. Lin. 



Nat. Gmel. p. 1139. Pall. Spic. Zool. 7. p. 35. t. 6.f. 1. 

 Gymnote with the fore part of the back snow-white. 



FIRST described by Dr. Pallas: native of Suri- 

 nam : head with wider mouth than the rest of its 

 tribe, very obtuse, fleshy, and sprinkled over with 

 small pores : upper lip very thick, including the 

 lower, which is very high on each side : no tongue : 

 palate beset with papiilas : gill-covers with a semi- 

 lunar opening before the fleshy base of the pectoral 



