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Show 1902.] ON THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF THE CONGO. 265 4. Contributions to the Ichthyology of the Congo.-II. On a Collection of Fishes from the Lindi River. By Gr. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S. [Received March 17, 1902.] (Plates XXYIII.-XXX.1) Among the material which has been most obligingly intrusted to m e for study by the Director of the Royal Natural History Museum in Brussels there is a large and important collection of Fishes made by M . Maurice Storms, a cousin of the late Raymond Storms, so well known for his important contributions to palas-ichthyology, in the Lindi River, which flows into the Congo at the Stanley Falls. As the fauna of this river had not previously been explored, it is desirable to give a list of all the species represented in the collection, seven of which are new to science. MORMYRIDiE. 1. MORMYROPS DELICIOSUS Leach. 2. PETROCEPHALUS SINUS Sauv. 3. MARCUSENIUS PULVERULENTTJS Blgr. 4. STOMATORHINUS nUMILIOR Blgr*. 5. MYOMYRUS MACRODON Blgr. 6. GNATHONEMUS MOORII Gthr. 7. GNATHONEMUS ELEPHAS Blgr. 8. GNATHONEMUS RHYNCHOPHORUS Blgr. CHARACINIIXE. 9. HYDROCYON LINEATUS Blkr. 10. BRYCON^ETHIOPS MICROSTOMA Gthr., var. BOULENOERT, Pellegr. 11. ALESTES GRANOISQUAMIS Blgr. 12. MICRALESTES HUMILIS Blgr. 13. MICRALESTES ALTUS Blgr. 14. MICRALESTES STORMSI, sp. n. (Plate XXVIII. figs. 1 & 2.) Depth of body 3| times in total length, length of head 4 times. Head longer than deep, twice as long as broad; snout shorter than the eye, the diameter of which equals the interorbital width 1 For explauation of the Plates, see p. 271. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1902, VOL. I. No XVIII. 18 |
