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more or less denticulated ; no barbel visible ; crater-like scars of 

 horny tubercles on snout and across it in front of nostrils and below 

 anterior part of eye. 



Dorsal iii 10 ; situated nearer to nostrils than to base of caudal, 

 upper edge concave, longest branched ray about same length or 

 slightly shorter or longer than head. Anal iii 5 ; shorter than head 

 and barely or not reaching to root of caudal. Pectoral slightly less 

 to a little more than length of head, not reaching ventrals, which 

 commence below 4th or 5th branched ray of dorsal. Caudal deeply 

 notched ; caudal peduncle 1^ to 1^ times as long as deep. Scales 

 38-39, lat. tr. 5 -: ; 4-5 rows of scales between lateral line and base 

 of ventral, 18-20 rows round caudal peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimens), brown or slaty grey above, lightish 

 below. 



One specimen, 205 mm. in length, from Six-mile Spruit. Pretoria 

 District, Transvaal. Pretoria Museum. 



One specimen, 232 mm. in length, from Crocodile Eiver, 

 Transvaal. Pretoria Museum. 



One specimen, 227 mm. in length, from Lydenburg District, 

 ? Olifants River, Transvaal. Pretoria Museum. 



Pour specimens, ranging from 202-235 mm. in length, from 

 Thabina and Letsikela Eivers, Zoutpansberg District, Transvaal. 



Seven specimens, ranging from 223-240 mm. in length, from 

 Magalies Eiver, Transvaal. 



Fourteen specimens, ranging from 140-212 mm. in length, from 

 Sabi Eiver, Transvaal ; Major J. S. Hamilton. 



This species is also reported from Abyssinia, East Africa to the 

 Zambezi, Lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa. 



4. LABEO DARLINGI, Blgr. 



Bouleng., Proc. Zool Soc , 1902, ii., p. 13, pi. ii fig 1, and Cat. 

 Fresh. Fish. Africa, i., p. 321 (1909). 



" Body strongly compressed, its depth nearly equal to length 

 of head and contained 4 times in total length. Head H times as 

 long as broad ; snout rounded, strongly projecting beyond mouth, 

 with scars of small tubercles ; eye nearly perfectly lateral, in middle 

 of head, its diameter 4| times in length of head, 2^ times in width 

 of interorbital region, which is flat; width of mouth, with lips, f that 

 of head ; rostral flap and anterior border of lip not denticulated ; 

 lower lip with a seines of papillae forming a denticulation ; inner 

 surface of lip with numerous transverse plicae, formed of closely- 



