1902.] ON A SPECIMEN OF THE OKAPI. 339 



Alestes macrolepidotus 0. V. 



R. Offim and R. Enon, village of ISTyankoma. 



Petersius occibentalis Gthr. 



Many specimens from Akropon and Infoan. 



Hydrocyon lineatus Schleg. 



R. Ofl&m and R. Enon, Nyankoma. 



Sarcodaces odoe B1. 

 R. Enon, Nyankoma. 



JSTannocharax fasciatus Gthr. 

 Town of Akropon. 



MORMYRUS ussheri Gthr. 

 R. Offim. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate XXX. 

 Chromis husumanus, p. 333. 



Plate XXXI. 

 Chromis multifasciatus, p. 333. 



Plate XXXII. 

 Notoglanidium walJceri, p. 337. 



Plate XXXIIL 

 Labeo walkeri, p. 338. 



4. On a Specimen of the Okapi lately received at Brussels. 

 By C. I. Forsyth Majoe, F.Z.S. 



[Received November 18, 1902.] 

 (With Text-figures 63-67.) 



Last month the Authorities of the Congo Independent State 

 received the skin of an Okapi which was at first supposed to have 

 been obtained by a missionary stationed at or near Stanley Pool, 

 but which subsequently proved to have been forwai'ded by the 

 Commandant Sillye, " chef de la zone du Haut-Ituri." Though 

 it was apparently of an adult individual, the skin shows no traces 

 of horns. 



The examination and comparison of the two Brussels skins, 

 of which photographs are exhibited, show first of all that in 

 the pattern of the striping, especially of the hind-quarters, some 

 variation occurs between one side and the other ; this warns us 

 not to attach too much importance to similar varia,tions when 



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