The Freshwater Fishes of South Africa. 



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not reaching ventral ; base of latter a little behind origin of dorsal. 

 Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally 



FIG. 48. Barbus lobuchilus. 



striated, 32-33 j|, 2 between lateral line and ventral, 14 round caudal 



peduncle. 



Dark olive above, yellowish beneath. 



Total length 170 millim. 



Natal." 



* 19. BARBUS ZAMBESENSIS, Peters. 



Labeobarbus zambezensis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac., 1852, p. 683, 

 and Reise Mossamb., iv., p. 49, pi. x., fig. 2 (1868). 



Barbus zambezensis, Giinth., Cat. Pish., vii., p. 105 (1868). 



Barbus zambesensis, Bouleng., Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 91, 

 fig. 70 (1911). 



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

 Snout about ^ length of head ; eye 4 times in length of head, equal 

 to interorbital width ; mouth inferior ; both lips much developed, 

 each more or less produced into a pointed median lobe ; two barbels 

 on each side, posterior twice as long as anterior and as long- 

 as eye. 



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

 concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, smooth, nearly as long as 

 head. Anal iii 5 ; not reaching caudal. Pectoral shorter than head, 

 not reaching ventral; latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 



