EUTJiOPlUS. 



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10. EUTROPIUS LATICEPS. 



Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 105, pi. xli. fig. 3 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 271 (1901). 



Fig. 236. 



Eutropius laticeps. 

 Type (A. M. C). i. 



Depth of body 3| times in total length, length of head 4± times. 

 Head hardly longer than broad ; snout broad, jaws equal in front ; eye 

 5 times in length of head ; vomero-palatine teeth forming an unin- 

 terrupted band, which is as broad as the band of pree maxillary teeth. 

 Nasal barbel f length of head, maxillary f , inner mandibular \, outer 

 mandibular f-. Gill-rakers rather long, widely set, 12 on anterior arch. 

 Dorsal I 6, entirely in advance of ventrals, If times as distant from 

 caudal as from end of snout ; its spine feebly serrated behind. Anal 45. 

 Pectoral reaching ventral, its spine u little stronger than that of dorsal 

 and feebly serrated on inner side. Caudal forked, with pointed lobes. 

 Dark brown above, purplish below ; fins olive-brown. 



Total length 230 millim. 



Upper Congo (Lake Leopold II.). — Type in Congo Museum, Ter- 

 vueren. 



11. EUTROPIUS DEPRESSIROSTRIS. 

 Bagrus depressirostris, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1852, p. 682. 

 Eutropius dejiressirostris, Peters, Arch. f. Nat. 1855, p. 267 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. v. 



p. 54 (1864) ; Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 54, pi. iv. fig. 5 (1868), and 



Mon. Berl. Ac. 1868, p. 600 ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, ciii. i. 1894, p. 462 ; 



Vincig. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2) xv. 1895, p. 34 ; Pt'eff. Thierw. O.-Afr., 



Fische, p. 30 (1896). 

 Eutropius lemairii, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 138, pi. 1. fig. 3 (1900), 



and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 272 (1901). 



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