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45. BARBUS MOTEBENSIS, Stdr. 



Steind., Sitzb. Ak. Wien, ciii., i., 1894, p. 453, pi. ii., fig. 2, and 

 Bouleng., Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 147, tig. 123 (1911). 



" Depth of body equal to length of head, about 3i times in total 

 length. Snout rounded, 3 times in length of head ; eye 4*- times in 

 length of head, interorbital width 3 times ; mouth small, sub- 

 inferior; two barbels on each side, anterior about i as long as 

 posterior, which is a little longer than eye. 



Dorsal iii 7 ; equally distant from eye and from caudal, border 

 convex ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, nearly as long as 



FIG. 74. Barbus motebensix. 



head. Anal iii 5 ; not reaching caudal. Pectoral nearly as long as 

 head, reaching ventral ; latter originating a little in advance of 

 dorsal. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. Scales 

 radiately striated 32-33 ||, 4-4| between lateral line and ventral. 



A dark lateral streak from above lateral line to root of caudal ; a 

 dark spot at base of dorsal. 



Total length 90 millim. 



Motebe Eiver, Upper Notuany Eiver, Marico District. 

 Transvaal." 



46. BARBUS BURCHELLI, A. Smith. 



Barbus (Pseudobarbus] burchelli, A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. Fish., 

 pi. xi., fig. 1 (1840). 



Barbus burchelli, M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., x., 1897, 

 p. 153 ; and Bouleng., Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 146, fig. 122 

 (1911). 



Depth of body 3i to 41 times in total length excluding caudal, 

 length of head 3^ to 4!> times. Snout rounded, 2| to 3* times in 



