The Freshwater Fishes of South Africa. 



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Labeo forskalii, part., Giinth., Cat. Fish., vii., p. 50 (1868), and 

 Petherick's Trav., ii., p. 260 (1869). 



Body more or less compressed, its depth 3^ times in total length 

 excluding caudal, length of head 4 T \j times ; width of head nearly 

 f its length. Snout rounded, strongly projecting, more or less 

 swollen, with a curved transverse groove upon it, length of head ; 

 eye supero-lateral, 5 times in length of head ; interorbital width 

 nearly length of head ; width of mouth f length of head ; lips well 

 developed, the upper straight-edged, the lower more or less ex- 

 panded, bordered in front with a feeble row of papillae and festooned 

 on its posterior border ; the inner surface of both lips with small 

 papillae forming transverse plicae ; rostral flap large, completely 



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FIG. 19. Labeo forskalii. 



detached at sides and its lower border feebly denticulated ; barbel 

 minute and more or less hidden under folds of skin ; crater-like scars 

 of tubercles on snout. 



Dorsal iii 10 ; equally distant from eye and from root of caudal, 

 upper border concave ; last simple ray and first branched ray pro- 

 duced and about twice as long as head. Anal iii 5 ; reaching caudal 

 T 9 ^ length of head. Pectoral slightly longer than head, not reaching 

 ventral, the first ray of which falls below 4th branched ray of dorsal. 

 Caudal deeply emarginate, crescentic when fully spread out ; caudal 

 peduncle as long as deep. Scales 40 ^|, 4 between lateral line and 



ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), brown, dark above, yellowish 

 beneath ; scales dark in the centre. 



