EUTKOPIUS. 



291 



10. EUTROPIUS LATICEPS. 



Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 105, pi. xli. fig. 3 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 271 (1901). 



Fijx. 236. 



Eiitropms laticeps. 

 Type (A. M. C). k. 



Depth of body 3^ times in total length, length of head A\ times. 

 Head hardly longer than broad ; snout broad, jaws equal in front ; eye 

 5 times in length of head ; vomero-palatine teeth forming an unin- 

 terrupted band, which is as broad as the band of prtemaxillary teeth. 

 Nasal barbel f length of head, maxillary f , inner mandibular \, outer 

 mandibular |. Gill-rakers rather long, widely set, 12 on anterior arch. 

 Dorsal I 6, entirely in advance of ventrals. If times as distant from 

 caudal as from end of snout ; its spine feebly serrated behind. Anal 45. 

 Pectoral reaching ventral, its spine a little stronger than that of dorsal 

 and feebly serrated on inner side. Caudal forked, with pointed lobes. 

 Dark brown above, purplish below ; fins olive-brown. 



Total length 230 millim. 



Upper Congo (Lake Leopold II.). — Type in Congo Museum, Ter- 

 vueren. 



U. EUTROPIUS DEPRESSIROSTlilS. 



Bagrus depressirostris, Petf^rs, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1852, p. GS2. 



JEutropius depressirostris, Peters, Arch. f. Nat. 1855, p. 2G7 ; Gunth. ('at. Fish. v. 



p. 54 (1864) ; Peters, Rcise Mossanib. iv. p. 54, pi. iy. fig. 5 (18G8), and 



Mon. Berl. Ac. 18G8, p. GOO ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, ciii. i. 1894, p. 4G2 ; 



Vincig. Ann. Mus. Geneva, (2) xv. 1895, p. 34 ; Pfeff. Tliicrw. O.-Afr., 



Fische, p. 30 (1896). 

 Eutropms lemairii, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 138, pi. 1. fig. 3 (1900), 



and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 272 (1901). 



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