448 



SILURID.i:. 



peduncle longer than deep. Brown, covered with small round dark 

 spots. 



Total leno^th 600 millim. 



Niger. 

 1. Type, stuffed. Niger. Mr. J. T. Dalton (C). 



The following specimens are referred provisionally and with doubt to 



this species ; — 



2-4. Yo-. Ognn R. at Aro, Lagos. Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 



38. SYNODONTIS LONGIROSTRIS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 44, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1902). 



Depth of body 4| times in total length, head 3 times. Head 1| times 

 as long as broad, rugose above from between the eyes ; snout obtusely 

 pointed, twice as long as postocular part of head ; eye supero-lateral, 

 5J times in length of head, If times in interorbital width; lips rather 



Fig. 330, 



Syiiodontis longirostrls. 

 Type (A. M. C). |. 



strongly developed ; praemaxillary teeth forming a short, broad band ; 

 movable mandibular teeth about ^ diameter of eye, 24 in number. 

 Maxillary barbel not margined, i length of head, barely reaching root 

 of pectoral spine ; outer mandibular barbel not quite twice as long as 



