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MORMYRID.E. 



18. Ad.,stffd. (Type.) 



Lower Congo. 



19. Hgr. 



5? 



20. Ad. 



Boma, Lower Congo. 



21. Hgr., skel. 



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22. Ad. 



Leopoldville, Stanley Pool 



23. Yg. (Type of 



Kinshassa, „ 



M. swanenburgi.') 





24. Hgr. t 



Kutn, Lake Leopold II. 



■25-27.' Hgr. &yg.- 



Monsembe, Upper Congo. 



28. Yg. 



Uerre, Congo. 



29. Yg. 



Eanzyville, Ubarighi. 



30. Ad. 



Geladi, Webi Shebeli. 



3-1. Ad. 



Lake Nyassa. 



32. Yg. 



?5 



Tuckey Expedition. 

 M. F. Hens (C). 

 M. P. Delhez (C.,. 



M. A. Greshoff (C). 



M. P. Delhez (C). 

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

 M. DeBauw (C). 

 Capt. Royaux (C). 

 Dr. Donaldson Smith (G). 

 Capt. E. L. Rhoades (P.). 

 J. A. Williams, Esq. (C). 



2. MORMYROPS ANGUILLOIDES. 



Mormyrus anguiUoides, Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. ii. p. 110 (1764), and Syst. Nat. i. 



p. 522 (1766) ; I. Geoffr. Descr. Egypte, Poiss. p. 274, pi. vii. fig. 2 (1827) ; 



Rifaud, Voy. Egypte, pi. clxxxviii. fig. 2 (1836) ; Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. 



xix. p. 258 (1846) ; Marcusen, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (7) vii. 1864, no. 4, 



p. 132 ; Giinth. Petheriok's Trav. ii. p. 257 (1869). 

 Mormyrus dendera, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. v. p. 621 (1803). 

 Mormyrops anguiUoides, Marcusen, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. xii. 1854, p. 14; Giinth. 



Cat. Fish. vi. p. 233 (1866) ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 782, and 



Fish. Nile, p. 29, pi. v. fig. 1 (1907). 

 Mareusenius anguiUoides, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 444. 



Fig. 21. 



Mormyrops anguiUoides. 

 Sauhur (F. N.). ±. 



Depth of body 5 to 6| times in total length, length of head 4 times. 

 Head once and § to nearly twice as long as deep, upper profile slightly 

 coucave ; snout rounded, \ to \ length of head, scarcely projecting 

 beyond mouth ; width of mouth nearly equal to or less than length 

 of snout ; teeth more or less distinctly notched, 20 to 24 in each jaw ; 

 eye small, in anterior third of the head, its diameter 2J to 3 times in 



