MAEC'USEXIUS. 



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projecting a little beyond mouth; latter small, inferior, its width ^ 

 length of head ; teeth truncate or feebly notched, 5 in upper jaw, 6 iu 

 lower; nostrils halfway between end of snout and eye ; eye moderate, f 

 length of snout, a little more than \ iiiterorbital width. Dorsal 22-24, 

 originating above 10th ray of anal, its length 2^ times in its distance 

 from head. Anal 30-31, 1^ times as long as dorsal, nearer base of 



Tier. 47. 



Marcusenius marcliii. 

 Type, after Sainage (N. Arch. Mas. 1880). f 



ventral than base of caudal. Pectoral pointed, as long as head, twice as 

 hmg as ventral, extending beyond base of latter. Caudal with pointed 

 lobes. Caudal peduncle 4 to 5 times as long as deep, a little longer 



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than head. 62 scales in lateral line, ^^ in transverse series on body, -g 

 in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 12 round caudal peduncle. 

 Olive-brown above, silvery beneath ; head speckled with brown. 



Total length IGO millim. 



Ogowe. — Type in Paris Museum. 

 1. Ad. Talagouga. Miss Kingsley (0.). 



4. MAECUSENIUS KINGSLEYJ]:. 

 Mormynis Ungshyce, Gunth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xvii. 1896, p. 281, pi. xv. 



fig. A. 

 Marcusenius Mngsleyce, Bouieng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 794. 

 Marcusenius cabrce, Bouieng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 130, pi. xlviii. fig. 1 



(1900), and Pois.=. Bass. Congo, p. 76 (1901). 

 Marcusenius brachyistius, part., Pappenh. Slitth. Zool. Mus. Berl. iii. 1907, p. 348. 



Depth of body 4 to 5 times in total length, length of head about same. 

 Head once and ^ as long as deep ; snout convex, i length of head, 

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