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TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 
Common. The flesh is white and good eating, but the fish is 
not brought to market, as the common people have a prejudice 
against it. 
Polypterus seneyalensis, Cuv. 
With twelve or thirteen, or even less, finlets. 
Common in the Upper Nile and in West Africa. 
DIPNOI. 
Lepidosiren. 
Body eel-shaped, scaly. Two pairs of simple cord-like limbs. 
Lungs and gills present o 
Lepidosiren annectens, Owen. 
The discovery of Lepidosiren in the system of the Nile is due to 
Sir S. Baker, who figured an example from Lake Nyanza, in The 
Albert Nyanza,^^ p. 131. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Plate I. Fig. A. — Ctempoma petherlcl. 
„ Fig. B. — Syoiodontis sorex. 
Plate II. Fig. A . — Ichthyhorus microlejjis. 
„ Fig. B. — Ophiocephalus olscurus. 
Plate III. Fig. A . — Hydrocyon 'brevis. 
„ Fig. B. — Disticlwdus rostratus. 
„ Fig. C. — Disticlwd'ns brevijnnnis. 
