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Mortnyrus caschive, Hasselq. {Chasm el Bindt.) 
D. 81—87. A. 18—20. V. 6. 
Scales very small. Snout conical,, mucli produced, slightly bent 
downwards, the pupil of the eye being exactly in the middle of the 
length of the head. Lower lip somewhat projecting beyond the 
upper j teeth very small, slightly dilated, the crown with a shallow 
notch. The height of the body is nearly equal to the length of the 
head, which is two -ninths of the total (without caudal) . 
Attains to a length of three feet. 
Mormyrus oxyrhynclius , Geoffr. 
D. 58—66. A. 18—20. V. 6. L. lat. ca. 130. 
Snout conieal, much produced, slightly bent dowmwards, the 
pupil of the eye being scarcely nearer to the end of opercle than to 
the extremity of the snout. Lower lip somewhat projecting be- 
yond the upper ; teeth not very small, slightly dilated, the crown 
with a shallow notch. The height of the body is nearly equal to 
the length of the head, whieh is two-ninths, or a little more than 
two-ninths, of the total (without caudal) . 
Mormyrus geojfroyi, C. & V. 
D. 74—77. A. 17—19. V. 6. 
Scales very small. Snout conical, much produced, with its lon- 
gitudinal axis nearly in the same line as the axis of the body ; eye 
almost in the middle of the length of the head. Lower lip some- 
