LABEO. 



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distant from occiput and from caudal, convex, longest rays much longer 

 than head. Anal II 5, extending much beyond root of caudal. Pectoral 

 as long as head, reaching ventral, the first ray of which falls under 3rd 

 or 4th branched ray of dorsal. Caudal notched, crescentic. Caudal 

 peduncle deeper than long. Scales 37 ^t, 4 between lateral line and 

 root of ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Dark purple, scales edged 

 with dark green. 



Total length 170 millim. 



Upper Congo. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



12. LABEO COUBIE. 

 Riipp. Fortsetz. Beschr. n. Fische Nil, p. 11, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1832) ; Ouv. & Val. 



Hist. Poiss. xvi. p. 344 (1843) ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 170, pis. xxix., xxx., 



& xxxi. fig. 2 (1907). 

 Laheo niloticus, part., Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 338. 

 Labeo selti, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p, 345 ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixi. i. 1870, 



p. 562, pl. vii. fig. 1. 

 Labeo niloticus, Heckel, Russegger's Reise Egypt, iii. p. 300, pl. xx. fig. 1 (1846); 



Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 46 (1868). 

 Labeo coxibie, part., Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 48 (1868), and Petherick's Trav. ii. 



p. 260 (1869). 

 "^ Laheo steindachneri, PfefB. Thierw. 0.-A£r., Fische, p. 51 (1896). 



Fig. 238. 



Laheo couhie. 

 Upper Nile (F. N.). i 



Body strongly compressed, its depth 8 to of times in total length. 

 Head 4 to 4| times in total length in adult, 8 to 4 times in young, its 

 width f to I its length ; snout rounded, often more or less swollen, I to 



