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TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 
tlie lateral line : its base is above the middle of the body ; the ven- 
tral is inserted midway between the pectoral and spinous dorsal. 
Dark shining stripes along the series of scales. 
I have not seen specimens of this species from the Nile ; and it 
is admitted here on the authority of Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
Muyil capito, Cuv. 
D. 4 I A. f. L. lat. 45. L. transv. 14. 
The height of the body is contained five times or five times and 
one- third in the total lengthy the length of the head four times and 
a half. The snout is broad and depressed ; the interorbital space 
slightly convex^ its width being contained twice and a half or twice 
and two-thirds in the length of the head. The angle made by the 
two mandibulary bones is rather obtuse; the preeorbital has an ob- 
tuse longitudinal ridge^ and does not entirely cover the maxillary 
bone. Eyes without adipose membrane ; nostrils close together : 
they are less distant from each other than the posterior is from the 
eye. The lips are not covered by the nasal bones. The space at 
the chin^ between the mandibnlaries and the interopercula_, is 
rather broad; elongate; cuneiform. There are twenty-eight or 
