PHEACTUEA. 



505 



snout a little longer than postocular part of head, pointed, projecting 

 beyond mouth ; posterior nostril close to the eye ; latter directed 

 upwards, 7 times in length of head, If times in interocular width ; 

 maxillary barbel -| length of head, mandibulars shorter. Occipital 

 process 2J times as long as broad, narrowly separated from interneural 

 shield. Dorsal I 6 ; first ray longest, as long as head ; second dorsal 

 very small. Anal 1 10. Pectoral as long as head, nearly reaching ventral ; 

 latter a little shorter, nearly reaching anal. Caudal with crescentic 

 notch. Caudal peduncle a little depressed, ^ total length. 26 dorsal 



Fig. 377. 



Phractura rinsorgii. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1901). 



and 22 ventral scutes, the last 11 on caudal peduncle. Pale brownish 

 above, speckled with blackish, white beneath ; two small blackish spots 

 on the dorsal fin and two blackish streaks along the caudal. 

 Total length 46 millim. 



Lower Niger. 



1. Type. 



Asbei'i 



Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 



7. PHRACTURA SCAPHIRHYNCHURA. 

 JDoumea scaphirhynchura, Vaill. Bev. Scientif. xxiii. ii. 1886, p. 18. 

 Peltura scaphirhynchura, Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1900, p. 6. 

 Phractura scaphirhynchura, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vi. 1900, p. 528, and 

 Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 335 (1901). 

 Depth of body 9 times in total length, length of head 5 times. Head 

 H times as long as broad, rugose above, covered with thin skin; snout 

 twice as long as postocular part of head, pointed, projecting a little 

 beyond mouth ; space between nostril equally distant from end of snout 

 and from eye ; latter directed upwards, 7 times in length of head, 1 J 



