MOHMYKOPS. 



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slightly curved tube, 6 or 7 times as long as deep ; mouth terminal, very 

 small ; teeth truncate, ~ ; eye small, a little nearer opercular border than 

 end of snout, its diameter § interocular width. Dorsal 17, -f to ^ length 

 of anal and above its middle, and 3 times as distant from end of snout 

 as from root of caudal. Anal 88, originating nearer caudal than head. 



Fig. 27. 



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Mormyrops houlemjeri. 

 Type. §. 



Pectoral rounded, ^ length of head. Caudal small, scaly at the base, 

 with rounded lobes. Caudal peduncle 2\ times as long as deep, its 

 length 3-| or 4 times in length of head. 63-70 scales in lateral line, 

 uj-li ' n transverse series on body, 12-13 in transverse series between 

 dorsal and anal, 8 round caudal peduncle. Blackish brown. 



Total length 240 millim. 



Alima River, Congo. — Types in Paris Museum. 

 1. One of the types. Diele, Alima ft. Paris Museum (E.). 



11. MORMYROPS CURTUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 6G, pi. xxxii. fig. 1 (1899), and Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 64 (1901). 



Tig. 28. 



Mormyrops curtus. 

 Type (A.M.C.). \. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 4 to 4\ times in total length. 

 Head once and |- as long as deep, with concave upper profile; snout 

 short, rounded ; mouth terminal, its width equal to length of snout ; 



