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eye 5f times in length of head, interorbital width nearly 3 times] 

 mouth terminal, width 3^ times in length of head ; lips very thick, 

 lower extending across chin, both lips produced into median lobes, 

 that on the upper lip itriangular and low and the one on lower 

 lip rounded and about f diameter of eye. Two barbels on each side, 

 posterior a little longer than anterior and nearly H times diameter 

 of eye. 



Dorsal iv 8 ; a little nearer to occiput than to root of caudal, 

 border almost straight ; last simple ray moderately enlarged, bony, 

 slightly curved, segmented down to its lower third, smooth, nearly 

 f length of head. Anal iii 5; reaching caudal. Pectoral nearly as 

 long as head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter nearly wholly in 

 advance of dorsal. Caudal peduncle li times as long as deep. 

 Scales longitudinally striated, 38^1, 3 between lateral line and 

 ventral, 14 round caudal peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), brownish on back, flesh-coloured 

 on sides and belly ; many of the scales on upper part of the body 

 with a dark patch on base. 



One specimen, 262 mm. in length, from Kirnberley Reservoir, 

 Cape Province. 



BARBUS GILCHRISTI, Blgr. 

 Bouleng., Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., pp. 88, fig. 66 (1911). 



FIG. 45. Barbus gilchristi. ^. 



"Depth of body 4i times in total length, length of head 3f times. 

 Snout rounded, projecting beyond mouth, 1 length of head; eye 

 5k times in length of head, interorbital width 3^ times ; width of 

 mouth 3 times in length of head ; lips very thick, lower extending 

 across chin, both produced into triangular lobes ; two barbels on 



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