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Four specimens, ranging from 40-56 mm. in length, from Natal 

 (J. Saunderson). 



59. BAKBUS KARKENSIS, n. sp. 



Depth of body 3f times in total length excluding caudal, length of 

 head 3^ times. Snout rounded, 3f times in length of head, eye 

 4f times, interorbital width 3f times ; mouth terminal, lips 

 moderately developed ; a single barbel on each side, f diameter 

 of eye ; a row of pores passing round each orbit from nostrils to 

 upper margin of gill-openings and joined by a row across occiput. 



Dorsal iii 7 ; equally distant from eye and from root of caudal > 

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

 % length of head. Anal ii 5 ; not reaching caudal. Pectoral T 7 -g- 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, 36^, 5 between lateral line and ventral, 16 round caudal 



peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), brown, dark above, lighter below ; 

 an indistinct lateral streak on body. 



One specimen, 64 mm. in length, from Karkloof, Natal. 



: 60. BAEBUS AFER, Peters. 



Barbies (Capoeta) afer, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac., 1864, p. 395. 

 Barbus afer, Givnth., Cat. Fish., vii., p. 148 (1868), and Bouleng., 

 Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 178, fig. 156 (1911). 



FIG. 88. Ilarlnts afer. 



"Depth of body equal to length of head, 4 times in total length. 

 Snout rounded, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is 3 to 

 3^ times in length of head ; interorbital width 3 times in length of 

 head ; mouth small, inferior; lips moderate ; a single barbel on each 

 side, \ to -f diameter of eye. 



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



