GNATIIONEMUS. 



107 



from base of caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, If times 

 length of ventral, extending a little beyond base of latter. Caudal 

 scaled in its basal half, with pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle nearly 

 4 times as long as deep, as long as head. 84-85 scales in lateral line, 



14 • . 14 



24 in transverse series on body, ^ in transverse series between dorsal and 

 anal, 12 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, with fine brown dots, which 

 are very crowded on the head and the dorsal and ventral lines. 



Tig. 86. 







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Gnatlioncmus mcnto. 

 Type, f 



Total length 190 millim. 

 Gaboon, Liberia. 

 1. Type. Gaboon. 



14. GNATHONEMUS STANLEYAKUS. 

 Mormyrus stanleyaims, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xx. 1897, p. 2(Jfi. 

 Gnatlionemus stanleyaims, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 806, and Pois,?. Bass. 



Congo, p. 97 (1901). 

 Gnatkonemus senegalensix (non Steind.), Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 512. 



Depth of body 3^ to 4J times in total length, length of head 4-^ to 

 5 times. Head not or but slightly longer than deep, with feebly carved, 

 declivous upper profile ; snout f to ^ length of head ; teeth conical or 

 truncate, 5 or 7 in upper jaw, 6 in lower ; a globular mental appendage, 

 as long as eye or a little shorter ; eye about § length of snout, f to f 

 interorbital width. Dorsal 28-32, originating above 7th to 13th ray of 

 anal, \ to f its distance from head. Anal 35-40, nearer base of caudal 

 than base of ventral. Pectoral pointed, nearly as long as head, about 

 twice as loDg as ventral, extending beyond base of latter. Caudal partly 



