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Annals of the South African Museum. 



' 55. BARBUS INERMIS, Peters. 



Barbu* (Dangila) inermis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac., 1852, p. 683. 



Barbiis iiicnnis, Giinth., Cat. Fish., vii., p. 103 (1868) ; Peters, Eeise 

 Mossamb., iv., p. 54, pi. xi., fig. 3 (1868) ; Bouleng., Proc. Zool. Soc., 

 1907, p. 310, and Gat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 152, fig. 129 (1911). 



" Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, 3| to 4 times in 

 total length. Snout rounded, as long as or a little longer than eye, 

 which is 3J to 3| times in length of head ; interorbital width 2f to 3 

 times in length of head ; mouth small, sub-inferior ; lips moderate ; 



FIG. 84. Barbus inermix. 



two barbels on each side, posterior longer than anterior and i to 

 | diameter of eye. 



Dorsal iv 8-9 ; equally distant from eye or snout and from caudal, 

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

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

 shorter than head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter below middle 

 of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1^ to 2 times as long as deep. Scales 



with numerous feebly radiating striae ; :;: 29-31 ^jjp, 2^ to 3 between 



lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. 



Dark green or olive above, yellowish beneath ; fins pale green. 



Total length 100 millim. 



Lower Zambezi and Limpopo Systems." 



56. BARBUS HEMIPLEUKOGKAMMA, Blgr. 

 Bouleng., Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 150, fig. 126 (1911). 



Depth of body 3^ to 3 T 9 Q times in total length excluding caudal, 

 length of head 3-} to 4y\ times. Snout rounded, about as long as the 



* "In this respect the scales of this species may be said to establish a link between 

 the two divisions of the genus adopted in the present arrangement." 



