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nearer gill-opening than to point of snout, 7 times in length of head 

 and 3i times in interorbital width ; width of mouth, with lips, a 

 little more than | length of head ; lips well developed, with trans- 

 verse plicae on inner surface, fringed with papillae, the lower lip 

 with prominent papillae scattered on it and festooned on lower edge; 

 rostral flap fringed ; no visible barbel. 



Dorsal iv 9 ; nearly equidistant from nostril and base of caudal, 

 upper border emarginate, longest branched ray about f- length of 

 bead. Anal iii 5 ; does not reach to base of caudal. Pectoral 

 i length of head ; does not reach to ventral which is inserted below 



FIG. 18. Labeo seeberi. j\. 



4th branched ray of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked, the lower lobe 

 pointed and longer than upper ; caudal peduncle nearly twice as 

 long as deep. Scales 83, lat. tr. f "- ; 16 rows between lateral line 

 and root of ventral ; about 32 round caudal peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), dark bluish brown above, light- 

 coloured on belly ; body covered with minute dark spots. 



One specimen, 268 mrn. in length, from Olifants River, Transvaal 

 (Dr. Seeber). 



2. LABEO FORSKALII, Rupp. 



Cyprinus niloticus, var. b, Forskal., Descr. Anim., p. 71 (1775). 



Labzo forskalii, Rupp., Mus. Senckenb., ii., p. 18, pi. iii., fig. 1 

 (1835) ; Guv. and Val., Hist. Poiss., xvi., p. 343 (1842) ; Heckel, 

 Russegger's Reise Egypt., iii., p. 301, pi. xx., fig. 2 (1846) ; Bouleng., 

 Fish. Nile, p. 176, pi. xxvii., fig. 2, and pi. xxxi., fig. 3 (1907), and 

 Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., i., p. 329, fig. 248 (1909). 



