The Freshwater Fishes of South Africa. 



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Two specimens, 110 mm., 80 mm. in length respectively, from 

 White River, East Transvaal (A. T. Cooke). 



9. BARBUS COOKEI, n. sp. 



Depth of body 3 times in total length excluding caudal, length of 

 head 4i times. Snout rounded, feebly projecting beyond mouth, 

 nearly 3 times in length of head ; eye 5f times in length of head, 

 interorbital width 2 T 1 (T times ; mouth sub-inferior, its width 2l times 

 in length of head ; lips thin, lower restricted to the sides ; lower jaw 

 with a sharp keel covered with a horny sheath. Two barbels on 

 each side, anterior diameter of eye, posterior nearly as long as eye. 



FIG. 41. Barbus eookei. -. 



Dorsal iii 9 ; equally distant from eye and from root of caudal, 

 border concave ; last simple ray slightly enlarged, bony, not serrated, 

 slightly longer than head. Anal ii 5; reaching caudal. Pectoral l-j 1 ^ 

 times as long as head, falciform, scarcely reaching ventral ; base of 

 latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked, lobes 

 acutely pointed ; caudal peduncle 1| times as long as deep. Scales 

 longitudinally striated, 28 f , H between lateral line and ventral, 14 

 round caudal peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), greenish, darker above than below ; 

 all fins except ventral edged with white ; a dark diagonal band on 



