44t) 



SILURID.^. 



spine strongly curved, a little shorter than head, smooth in front, 

 serrated behind. Adipose dorsal shorter than head, its distance from 

 rayed dorsal less than base of latter. Anal III 8. Pectoral spine a 

 little shorter than head, strongly serrated on both sides. Ventral not 

 reaching anal. Caudal moderately forked. Uniform reddish brown 

 (bleached 1). 



Total length 144 millim. 



French Congo. — Type in Paris Museum. 



Fig. 330. 



32. SYNODONTIS ANGELICUS. 

 Schilth. Tijdscbr. Nederl. Dierk. Ver. (2) iii. 1891, p. 87 ; Vaill. N. Arch. Mus. 

 (3) viii. 1896, p. 141, & vii. pi. xiv. fig. 1 ; Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, 

 p. 311 (1901). 



Depth of body 3^ to 4^ times in 

 total length, length of head SJ to 3| 

 times. Head as long as broad or 

 a little longer than broad, feebly 

 rugose above ; snout rounded, ]| to 

 1-^- times as long as postocular part 

 of head ; eye superolateral, 4J to 

 5J times in length of head, IJ to 2 



tSi/iiodontis a )i(jeUci(s. 

 Preiifh Coiif^o, after A^'aillaut (/. c). .4. 



times in interorbital width; lips moderately develo{)ed ; pntmaxillary 

 teeth forming a short and broad band ; movable mandibular teeth about 

 i diameter of eye, 30 to 35 in number. Maxillary barbel without 



