324 CTPEINID.li:. 



not quite once and | as long as broad ; eye more supero-lateral ; width 

 of mouth J length of head. Dorsal with straight upper edge. Caudal 

 peduucle not longer than deep. Scales 36 ||, 4 between lateral line and 

 root of ventral. Olive, scales with dark edges forming a network ; a 

 dark spot behind the gill-opening ; dorsal blackish. 



Total length 300 millim. 



Lake Rukwa. — Type in Berlin Museum. 



19. LAREO BRACHYPOMA. 



Giinth. Cat. Fisli. vii. p. aO (1800) : Boulni^r. Ann. .t Ma^. X. H. (7) xii. im\, 



p. 261. 

 Laheo walkeri, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1*JU2, ii. p. X\X, \>\. xxxiii. 



Body strongly compressed, its depth 3 to oj times in total lenirth. 

 [lead 4 to 41 times in total length, 1^ to 1? times as long as broad; 



Fiir. 24:<. 



\ 





Labeo hrachi/i>oiii(i. 

 Type of /.. waJ/ceri, after Giinther (P. /. S. l!»02). ^ 



snout rounded, shghtly projecting ; eye supero-lateral, in second lialf of 

 head, 4 to 5 times in length of hend, 2 to 2| times in interorbiial width ; 

 width of mouth, with lips, i to f length of head ; lips feebly fringed, 

 with transverse plicae on inner side ; rostral flap entire ; a small barbel, 

 hidden in folds of skin ; snout with large tubercles. Dorsal III-IV 9-11, 

 equally distant from centre of eye or nostrils and from caudal, upper edge 

 straight or convex, longest ray IJ to 1\ times lengtli of h(>ad. Annl 



