The Freshwater Fishes of tioutJt Africa. 



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6f times, interorbital width 3 times ; mouth sub-inferior, its width 

 2f times in length of head; lips thin. Two barbels on each side, 

 sub-equal and nearly as long as diameter of eye. 



Dorsal iii 8 ; nearer to occiput than to root of caudal, border 

 concave ; last simple ray moderately enlarged, bony, not serrated 

 (broken in the specimen). Anal ii 5 ; scarcely reaching to caudal. 

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

 anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1 f- (F times as long as deep. 



Scales longitudinally striated, 38 ~, 3 between lateral line and 



05 



ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), dark grey above, whitish below ; 

 tins with a blackish tinge. 



One specimen, 325 mm. in length, from M'Fongosi, Zululand 

 (W. E. Jones). 



: 5. BARBUS MAEEQUENSIS, A. Smith. 



Barbus (Clicilobarbits) marequensis, A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. 

 Fish., pi. x., fig. 2 (1841). 



Barbus marequensis, Bouleng., Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 36, 

 fig. 16 (1911). 



" Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, nearly 4 times in 

 total length. Snout rounded, 3 times in length of head ; eye 5i 



mm 



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FIG. 37. Barbu* marequensis. 



times in length of head, interorbital width 2i times ; mouth inferior, 

 its width about ^ length of head ; lips well developed, the lower con- 

 tinuous across the chin ; two barbels on each side, sub-equal, about 

 1^ diameters of eye. 



Dorsal iii 8 ; equally distant from occiput and from caudal, border 



