MORMYEOPS. 37 



peduncle 2 to 2| times as long as deep, | to f length of head. 80-93 



-13 



20Z22 ill transverse series on body, 18-19 in 



scales in lateral line, 



transverse series between dorsal and anal, 16 round caudal peduncle. 

 Pale brown, dotted with blackish. 



Fig. 22. 



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dKf 





Mormijrops encjystomn. 

 Type (A. M. C). |. 



Total length 145 millim. 



Lower Congo. — Tjpes in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 





1-2. Two of the tj'pes. 



Matadi. 



Capt. Wilvei-th (C). 



6. MORBIYROPS PARA^US. 



Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 65, pi. xxxi. fig. 2 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 61 (1901). 



Depth of body 6^ to 7J times in total length, length of head 4-| to 

 4f times. Head twice as long as deep, with straight, slightly declivous 

 upper profile ; snout rounded, almost truncate, projecting a little beyond 

 mouth, the width of which equals only f length of snout ; teeth notched, 



Fig. 2:3. 





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I -J 



Mormijrops parvus. 

 Type (A. M C). |. 



10 to 12 in each jaw; eye very small, in anterior third of head, its 

 diameter 3 times in length of snout, 2^ to 3 times in interocular width. 

 Dorsal 19-22, 1 or | length of anal, originating 2 to 2^ times as far 

 from end of snout as from base of caudal. Anal 33-36, originating 



