JIOEMYEOPS. 45 



5 times. Head once and f to nearly twice as long as deep, with straight 

 or slightly concave upper profile ; snout rounded, jaws equal ; width 

 of mouth a little less than length of snout; teeth truncate, 14 to 20 

 in each jaw ; eye very small, in anterior third of head, its diameter 

 3 or 4 times in length of snout, 2^ to 3J times in interocular width. 

 Dorsal 34-39, f to |^ length of anal, originating at equal distance from 

 head and from base of caudal, or a little nearer latter. Anal 47-59, 



Kg. 32. 



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Mormyrops inarice. 

 Type. f. 



originating in advance of dorsal (8th to 11th ray corresponding to first 

 dorsal), and much nearer base of caudal than end of snout. Pectoral 

 rounded, ^ length of head. Caudal very small, scaled at the base, with 

 rounded lobes. Caudal peduncle not longer than deep, i to -I- length of 

 head. 100-106 scales in lateral line, ^^^ in transverse series on body, 

 28-31 in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 22-24 round caudal 

 peduncle. Pale purplish, uniform or finely speckled with brown. 



Total length 390 millim. 



Congo. 

 1_2 Ho-r Matadi, Lower Congo. Capt. Wilverth (C). 



3. Ad.°' Boma, „ M. P. Delhez (C). 



4. Hgr, type. Kinshassa, Stanley Pool. M. A. Greshoff (C). 



16. MORMYROPS ATTENDATUS. 

 Boiileng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 6, pi. i. fig. 4 (1898), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, 



p. 786, Poiss. Das-. Congo, p. 68 (1901), and Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 



1905, p. 6 a. 

 Depth of body 8 to 8i times in total length, length of head 51 to 

 61 times. Head nearly twice as long as deep, upper profile straight, 

 declivous; snout rounded, projecting a little beyond mouth; width 

 of mouth I length of snout ; teeth truncate, Jl ; eye small, in anterior 

 third of head, its diameter 2\ times in length of snout or interocular 

 width Dorsal 41-43, | length of anal, originating a little nearer base 



