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than those of dorsal, | length of head. Pectoral f length of head, 

 not reaching ventral. Caudal forked (damaged in specimens) ; 

 caudal peduncle 2^ times as long as deep. Scales with radiating 

 striae, 40 11 4 2i- hetween lateral line and base of ventral, 14 round 



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caudal peduncle. 



FIG. 92. Bariliita stephenxoni. 



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 4- 



Colour (of preserved specimens), silvery, brownish on back ; 7 or 8 

 vertical bluish bars on body on each side and a dark spot at base of 

 caudal ; membranes of dorsal rays and tip of last ray black. 



Two specimens, 49 mm., 56 mm. in length respectively, from 

 Livingstone, Khodesia (A. Stephenson). 



: 4. BARILIUS ZAMBESENSIS, Peters. 



Leuciscus zambesensis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac., 1852, p. 682. 



Opsaridion zambezense, Peters, op. cit., 1853, p. 783, arid Eeise 

 Mossamb., iv., p. 58, pi. xi., fig. 5 (1868). 



Barilius zambezensis, Gunth., Cat. Fish., vii., p. 292 (1868). 



Barilius zambesensis, Bouleng., Cat. Fresh. Fish. Afr., ii., p. 198, 

 fig. 173 (1911). 



" Depth of body 4-4 i times in total length, length of head 3| to 

 4 times. Head twice as long as broad ; snout rounded, scarcely 



FIG. 93. Barilius zambesensis. 



projecting beyond mouth, as long as or shorter than eye, which is 

 3^ to 4 times in length of head and equals interorbital width ; mouth 

 extending to below anterior third or centre of eye ; no barbels ; sub- 



