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MOEMTEID^. 



Anal 36-38, equally distant from extremity of ventral and from base of 

 caudal. Pectoral obtusely pointed, f length of head, a little over twice 

 length of ventral, and extending beyond base of latter. Caudal scaled. 



Fig. 105. 



Genyomyrus donnyi. 

 Type (A. M. C). {. 



with rounded lobes. Caudal peduncle 3 times as long as deep, i to | 

 length of head. 78-82 scales in lateral line, ggise i^^ transverse series on 

 ]30(jy^ 11=15 in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 12 round caudal 

 peduncle. Brownish above, lighter beneath. 



Total length 450 millim. 



Upper Congo. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1. One of the types. 



2. Skel. 



3. 4-6. Ad. & hgr. 

 7. Hgr. 



8-9. Ad. & yg. 



Upoto. 



Monsembe. 



Kutu, L. Leoiiold II. 



Upper Congo. 



Capt. Wilverth (C). 



Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). 

 M. P. Delhez (C). 

 Brussels University. 



9. MORMYRUS. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 522 (part.); Gill, Proc. Ac. Pliilad. 1864, p. 139 ; Bouleng. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 812, Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 109 (1901), and Fish. 



Nile, p. 59 (1907). 

 Sr.ropUcephalus, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. ii. p. 187 (1839). 

 Mormyrodes, Gill, 1. c. 

 Solenomormyrus, Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Amsterd. (2) viii. 1874, p. 368. 



Teeth in the jaws small, notched, few (5 to 12 in the upper jaw, 8 to 

 14 in the lower) ; minute conical teeth on the parasphenoid and on the 

 tongue ; mouth terminal. Nostrils moderately far apart, remote from 

 the eye. Body moderately elongate ; ventral fins equally distant from 

 the pectorals and from the anal, or nearer the former. Dorsal fin much 



