MOEMYHOPS. 



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peduncle 2 to 2h times as long as deep, | to f length of head. 80-93 

 scales in lateral line, .^j^ in transverse series on hody, 18-19 in 

 transverse series between dorsal and anal, 16 round caudal peduncle. 

 Pale brown, dotted with blackish. 



Fie. 22. 





Mormyrops engystoma. 

 Type (A. M. C). f. 



Total length 145 millim. 



Lower Congo. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 

 1-2. Two of the types. Matadi. Capfc. Wilverth (C). 



G. MORMYROPS PARVUS. 



Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 65, pi. xxxi. fig. 2 (1899), and Pois.s. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 61 (1901). 



Depth of body 6^ to 7| times in total length, length of head 4^ to 

 4f times. Head twice as long as deep, with straight, slightly declivous 

 upper profile; snout rounded, almost truncate, projecting a little beyond 

 mouth, the width of which equals only f length of snout ; teeth notched, 



Fi K . 23. 



rfe 



w 





Mormi/rops parvus. 

 Type (A. M C). f . 



10 to 12 in each jaw; eye very small, in anterior third of head, its 

 diameter 3 times in length of snout, 2£ to 3 times in interocular width. 

 Dorsal 19-2i>, l or f length of anal, originating 2 to 2h times as far 

 from end of snout as from base of caudal. Anal 3o-oG, originating 



