78 MORMTRID^. 



caudal peduncle. Brown, with an indistinct darker vertical band 

 between origin of dorsal and anal. 



Total length 215 millim. 



Cameroon. — Types in Berlin Museum. 



1. One of the types. LokunJe R., near Bipindi. Hr, G. Zenker (C); 



Berlin Museum (E.). 



17. MARCUSENIUS HARRINGTONI. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xv. 1905, p. 457 ; Pappenh. Mitth. Zool. Mus. 



Berl. iii. 1907, p. 348, pi. xi. fig. 1 ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 44, pi. ix. fig. 3 



(1907). 

 Depth of body 3f times in total length ; length of head 5^ times. 

 Head as long as deep, once and | as long as broad ; snout rounded, 

 f length of head, projecting beyond mouth ; moath below nostrils, its 

 width 4 times in length of head ; teeth bicuspid, 6 in upper jaw, 6 in 

 lower ; nostrils equally distant from end of snout and from eye, anterior 

 on a line with lower border of eye, posterior a little lower down ; eye 

 moderate, its diameter f length of snout and half interocular width, 



Fis. 01. 



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Marcuseniiis Jiarrinr/ioni. 

 Type(F. X.). i 



Dorsal 30-31, its origin corresponding to that of anal, its length nearly 

 ■| its distance from head. Anal 30-33, equally distant from base of 

 ventral and from base of caudal. Pectoral pointed, a little shorter 

 than head, not quite twice as long as ventral, and extending beyond root 

 of latter. Caudal densely scaled on more than half of its surface, with 

 pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle 3|- times as long as deep, as long as 

 head. 80-87 scales in lateral line, j^! in transverse series on body, ^ 

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



