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Colour (of preserved specimen) pale reddish yellow, lighter below 

 throat. 



One specimen, 268 mm. in length, from IJmgusa River, Southern 

 Ehodesia (Mr. C. Baker). Bulawayo Museum. 



This species is also reported from the Zambesi and Lakes Nyassa, 

 Mweru and Tanganyika. 



Page 348. After L. seeberi, Grilchr. and Thomp., insert : 



LABEO HAMILTONI, n. sp. 



Body compressed, its depth ;}f to 3^ times in total length excluding 

 c.iudal, length of head 4 to 4-| times. Head If to If times as long as 

 broad, depressed ; snout prominent, with a deep transverse groove, 

 about equal to or slightly longer than postocular portion of head and 

 2^ to 2f times in length of head ; eye lateral, in middle of head, 3| to 

 4,} times in length of head, H to 2 times in iuterorbital width ; width 

 of mouth, with lips, about -i width of head ; lips moderately developed, 

 fringed with long conical papillae, with a baud of small plicae on 

 inner surface and with a smooth, cutting inner edge ; rostral flap 

 entire ; &nout covered with strong tubercles or their pits or scars. A 

 small barbel on each side, 1 to nearly -|- diameter of eye in length. 



Dorsal iii 11 ; about equidistant between middle of eye and base of 

 caudal, upper edge concave, longest rays I T \J to 1| times length of 

 head. Pectoral f length of head, not reaching ventral, which is 

 inserted below anterior half of dorsal. Anal ii 5, not reaching 

 caudal, which is deeply forked, crescentic, and l^to If times in length 

 of head. Caudal peduncle 1^ to 1^- times as long as deep. Scales 

 38-40 -I, 4* between lateral line and base of ventral, 20 round caudal 

 peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimens) golden brown, darker above, silvery 

 below ; scales dark on outer edges, forming longitudinal lines between 

 the several series ; vertical fins greyish, covered with minute dark 

 specks. 



Three specimens, 98 mm., 124 mm., 132 mm. in length respectively, 

 from^ Sabi River Game Reserve, Transvaal (Major J. Stevenson 

 Hamilton). 



This species closely resembles L. cyclorlvynchus. 



