MYOMTEUS. 93 



1. MYOMYRUS MACRODON. 

 Bouleng. 11. cc. p. 10, pi. vii. fig. 1, p. 800, and p. 89. 



Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, 4 to if times in total 

 length. Head If to 1^ times as long as deep, with slightly concave 

 upper profile ; snout short, i to f length of head, strongly projecting 

 beyond mouth ; mouth small, its width i to f length of head ; nostrils 

 below level of eye, nearer end of snout than eye ; eye very small, i to | 

 interorbital width. Dorsal 38-42, as long as or slightly longer than its 



Fig. 76. 



Myomyrus macrodon. 

 Type (A. M. C). |. 



distance from end of snout. Anal 26-30, originating below 13th to 16th 

 ray of dorsal, a little nearer base of caudal than base of ventral. 

 Pectoral obtusely pointed, -| to f length of head, 1\ to 1\ times length 

 of ventral, reaching base of latter. Caudal scaled, with rounded lobes. 

 Caudal peduncle 3 times as long as deep, ^ length of head. 88-93 scales 

 in lateral line, 21125 i^ transverse series on body, j^^ in transverse series 

 between dorsal and anal, 16-20 round caudal peduncle. Pale brownish 

 above, whitish below. 



Total length 340 millim. 



Congo. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1. Hgr., one of the types. Matadi, Lower Congo. Capt. Wilvei'th (C). 



2. Hgr. Boma, „ M. P. Delhez (C). 



3. Ad. Upper Congo. Brussels University. 



4. Yg. Lindi R., Upper Congo. M. M. Storms (C.) ; 



Brussels Museum (E.). 



