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orbital width 3 to 3^ times ; mouth, terminal ; lips moderate ; two 

 barbels on each side, anterior | to f diameter of eye, posterior 1 to 

 1^ diameters. 



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

 slightly convex ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, f to 

 | length of head. Anal iii 5 ; not reaching caudal. Pectoral f to f 

 length of head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior 



FIG. 77. Barbus gurnei/i. 



rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If to 2 times as long as deep. 

 Scales radiately striated, 31-35 g|^, H to 2| between lateral line 

 and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. 



Brownish above, silvery beneath ; a rather indistinct dark streak 

 from above origin of lateral line to root of caudal, where it may end 

 in a small black spot. 



Total length 100 millim. 



Natal and Zululand." 



49. BARBUS LINBOMACULATUS, Blgr. 



Bouleng., Ann. and Mag. N.H. (7), xi., 1903, p. 53, pi. v., fig. 3, 

 and Cat. Fresh. Fish., Afr., ii., p. 159, fig. 136 (1911); 

 Hilgend., Zool. Jahrb. Syst., xxii., 1905, p. 415. 



Depth of body equals length of head, which is 4 times in total 

 length, excluding caudal. Snout rounded, as long as the eye, which 

 is 4^ times in length of head ; interorbital width 2f times ; mouth 

 small, sub-inferior; lips moderately developed. Two barbels on 

 each side, anterior 1J times diameter of eye, posterior 1^ times. 



Dorsal iii 8; equally distant from middle of eye and root of caudal, 

 border feebly concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, 



