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width 3-V times; mouth small, inferior, its width 4 times in length of 

 head ; lips well developed, lower continuous across chin ; two barbels 

 on each side, sub- equal in length, f diameter of eye. 



Dorsal iii 8 ; equally distant from eye and from root of caudal, 

 border concave ; last simple ray strong, bony, not serrated, its rigid 

 part f length of head. Anal iii 5 ; not reaching root of caudal. 

 Pectoral f length of head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter below 

 anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. 

 Scales longitudinally striated, 43 g|, 5 between lateral line and 



ventral, 18 round caudal peduncle. 

 Olive-grey above, white beneath. 

 Total length 120 mm. 

 Klein Olifant River, Limpopo System." 



2. BARBUS HOLUBI, Stdr. 

 (Geel-visch, Yellow-fish.) 



Steind., Sitz. Ak. Wien, ciii., i., 1894, p. 449, pi. iii., fig. 1 ; M. 



Weber, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., x., 1897, p. 151 ; Bouleng., Ann. and 



Mag. N.H. (7), x., 1902, p. 424, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1907, p 309, 



and Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 22, fig. 4 (1911). 



Depth of body 3J to 4 r L times in total length excluding caudal, 



length of head 3 5 to 4^ times. Snout rounded, feebly projecting 





FIG. 35. Barbus liolubi. ] 3 . 



beyond mouth, 2^ to 3| times in length of head ; eye 3| (young) to 

 6i times in length of head, interorbital width 2? to 4 times ; mouth 

 sub-inferior, its width 2i to 4 T V times in length of head; lips 

 moderately developed, lower continuous across chin, sometimes with 



