448 



SILURID.E. 



peduncle longer than deep. Brown, covered with small round dark 

 spots. 



Total length 600 millim. 



Niger. 

 1. Type, stuffed. Niger. Mr. J. T. Dalton (C). 



The following specimens are referred provisionally and with doubt to 

 this species : — 

 2-4. Yg. Ogun R. at Aro, Lagos. Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 



38. SYNODONTIS LONGIROS1TUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 44, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1902). 



Depth of body 4£ times in total length, head 3 times. Head 1| times 

 as long as broad, rugose above from between the eyes ; snout obtusely 

 pointed, twice as long as postocular parr, of head ; eye supero-lateral, 

 Si times in length of head, If times in interorbital width ; lips rather 



Fig. 336. 



Synodoniis longirostris. 

 Type (A. M. C). f . 



strongly developed ; pram axillary teeth forming a short, broad band ; 

 movable mandibular teeth about ^ diameter of eye, 24 in number. 

 Maxillary barbel not margined, ^ length of head, barely reaching root 

 of pectoral spine ; outer mandibular barbel not quite twice as long as 



