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Annals of the South African Muscii-tit-. 



lips moderate ; a single barbel on each side, as long as or slightly 

 longer than eye ; upper surface of head of breeding male with spine- 

 like tubercles, those on snout very large. 



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

 straight ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, f to f length of 

 head. Anal iii 5; not reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than 

 head, nearly reaching ventral in males, not in females ; base of 





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FIG. 86. Barbus aspt'r. 



ventral below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle lg to If 

 times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 37-42 8 _f* g j, 5-6 

 between lateral line and ventral, 18-20 round caudal peduncle ; 

 dorsal scales rough, with minute spinose nuptial tubercles. 



Brown above, whitish beneath, the scales on the sides darker in 

 the centre ; an ill-defined dark lateral band. 



Total length 110 millim. 



Cape Colony." 



58. BAKBUS ANOPLUS, M. Web. 

 (Eooi-vlerk.) 



M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., x., 1897, p. 151 ; Bouleng., Cat. 



Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 177, fig. 155 (1911). 



Depth of body 3J to 4| times in total length excluding caudal, 

 length of head 3 to 4 times. Snout rounded, 3 to 4?, times in length 

 of head, diameter of eye 3 to 5 times, interorbital width 2 T 7 o to 3^ 

 times ; mouth terminal or sub-inferior ; lips moderate. A single 

 barbel on each side, | (young) to l-- times diameter of eye. A row 

 of pores round each orbit and thence to origin of lateral line. In 

 some specimens the head, snout, cheeks, and chin, or the upper 

 part of snout only, are covered with small whitish spine-like 

 tubercles. 



