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interorbital width i to f length of head ; width of mouth, with lips, 

 2 to 3 times in length of head ; lips not distinctly fringed on the edge, 

 with small papillae forming transverse plicae on inner side ; rostral 

 flap large, completely detached at the sides, its edge entire or feebly 

 denticulate ; a minute barbel, usually hidden under folds of skin ; 

 tubercles on the snout, or their crater-like scars, much developed 

 in adult. 



Dorsal iv 11 ; longest rays about 1-J- times length of head, equally 

 distant from anterior or posterior border of eye and from caudal, 



FIG. 23. Labeo conyoro. . 



upper edge more or less convex in adult. Anal iii 5 ; reaching root 

 of caudal or beyond. Pectoral nearly as long as or a little longer 

 than head, not reaching ventral, the first ray of which falls below 

 4th or 5th branched ray of dorsal. Caudal deeply emarginate ; 

 caudal peduncle as long as deep or a little deeper than long. 



Scales 38-39 ?, 4^ between lateral line and root of ventral, 16 round 



caudal peduncle. 



Colour, golden above, darker on the back, silvery white beneath 

 dorsal bluish black, anal and caudal reddish black. 



Total length, 330 mm. 



Habitat : Zambezi." 



