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MOKMYKID.-E. 



9. MORMYROPS ZANCLIROSTRIS. 

 Mormyrus zanclirostris, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 18G7, p. 114, pi. ii. 



fig. B. 

 Mormyrops zanclirostris, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 3 (1898), and 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 783. 

 Depth of body 6 to 7 times in total length, length of head 3^ to 

 4 times. Head 2\ to 2f times as long as deep ; snout much produced, 

 tubiform, nearly as long as postorbital part of head ; mouth terminal, 

 very small; teeth truncate, 14 in each jaw; eye very small, situated 

 in anterior half of head, its diameter | to § interocular width. 

 Dorsal 19-21, -| length of anal, originating 3 to 3^ times as far from 



Fig. 2C. 



Mormyrops zanclirostris. 

 Type, after Giinther (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1867). \. 



head as from base of caudal. Anal 34-39, originating considerably 

 in advance of dorsal (its 12th to 14th ray corresponding to the first 

 dorsal ray), and at nearly equal distance from head and base of 

 caudal. Pectoral f length of head. Caudal small, densely scaled in 

 its basal half, with rounded lobes. Caudal peduncle twice as long as 

 deep, ^ length of head. 70-74 scales in lateral line, yttb in transverse 

 series on body, 14-15 in transverse series between dorsal and anal, 

 10 or 12 round caudal peduncle. Dark brown. 



Total length 270 millim. 



Gaboon. 



1 Ad., type 



2. Ad. 



3. Ad., skei. 

 4-5. Hot. 



Gaboon. 

 Talagouga, Ogowe. 



Miss Kingsley (C,). 



J? 

 Dr. W. J. Ansorge (0.). 



Masoma R., Ogowe. 



10. MORMYROPS BOULENGERI. 

 Pellegr. Bull. Mns. Paris, 1900, p. 349 ; Bouleng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 63 (1901). 

 Depth of body 9 times in total length, length of head 3^ times. 

 Head 3 to 3-j- times as long as deep ; snout produced into a long, slender, 



