390 



Annals of the South African Museum. 



about l-.\- times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 

 32-34 j|, 3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal 

 peduncle. 



FIG. 49. Barbus zambesensis. 



Upper parts and fins green, lower parts silvery tinged with yellow. 



Total length 130 millirn. 



Zambezi. Types in Berlin Museum." 



: 20. BARBUS CHILOTES, Blgr. 



Bouleng., Ann. and Mag. N.H. (8), ii., 1908, p. 494, and Cat. Fresh. 

 Fish. Air., ii., p. 93, fig. 72 (1911). 



" Depth of body 3^ times in total length, length of head 4 or 4 

 times. Snout rounded, about .\ length of head ; eye 3i (young) to 

 5 times in length of head ; interorbital width 2J to 2f times ; mouth 

 inferior, its width 3^- to 4 times in length of head; both lips much 

 developed, each more or less produced into an obtusely pointed 

 median lobe ; two barbels on each side, posterior nearly twice as 

 long as anterior and a little shorter than eye. 



Dorsal iii 9-10 ; equally distant from eye and from root of caudal, 

 or a little nearer latter, border concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, 

 flexible, smooth, 1| times as long as head. Anal iii 5 ; reaching or 

 nearly reaching caudal. Pectoral as long as head, not reaching 

 ventral ; base of latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 



