The Freshwater Fishes of South Africa. 



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| length of head. Anal iii 5 ; not reaching caudal. Pectoral T 7 ^ length 

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

 of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If times as long as deep. Scales 

 radiately striated, 30 jj, 2i between lateral line and ventral, 12 round 



4^ - 1 



caudal peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), brownish, darker on the back ; a 

 series of irregular black spots on each side, more or less connected 



* ># * 



^^-SSs-i~^V:Aj i-V^l^-- V 



FIG. 78. Barbus lineomaculatus. 



by a dark lateral streak, all but the last spot being above the lateral 

 line. 



One specimen, 34 mm. in length, from Insiza, Ehodesia (G. 

 French). 



It is also reported from Lumi River, east side of Kilimanjaro, 

 flowing into Lake Jipi ; and Bubu Eiver, Masailand, East Africa. 



50. BARBUS VIVIPARUS, M. Web. 



M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., x., 1897, p. 153 ; Bouleng., Cat. 

 Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 170, fig. 147 (1911). 



Depth of body 4 T V times in total length excluding caudal, length 

 of head 4-t times. Snout rounded, slightly less than diameter of 

 eye, which is 3*- times in length of head ; interorbital width 3 times 

 in length of head; mouth small, sub-inferior; lips thin. Two 

 barbels on each side, anterior -| diameter of eye, posterior 1| times. 



Dorsal iii 8 ; equally distant from anterior margin of eye and from 

 root of caudal, border straight; last simple ray not enlarged, but 

 serrated, as long as head. Anal ii 5 ; not reaching caudal. Pectoral 

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

 rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. Scales 

 radiately striated, 29**, 2| between lateral line and ventral, 12 round 

 caudal peduncle. 



