LABEO. 



327 



yellowish, with dark brown spots and marbliugs, and with black markings 



on the tins. 



rig. 245. 



Laheo cydorhijnchus. 

 Type (A. M. C). f 



Total leni^th 100 niillim. 



Upper C'on«;(). — "i'ype in Con-io Museum, Tervueren. 



Monscmlu'. l{<v. .1. H. Weeks (P.). 



1-3. \ 



22. LABEO FALCTPINXIS. 



Labeo faJcifer (non C. & V.), Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. 1. p. 35, pi. xvii. 



fi<T. 2 (1898), and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 215 (1901). 

 Laln'ofalcipinnh, Bouk«ng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 190:5, p. 3,i;0. 



Body strongly compressed, its deptli 3 to 4 times in total length. 

 Head 4 times in total length, its width f its length ; snout rounded, 

 a little swollen at the end; eye in second half of head, supero-lateral, 

 4 to 5 times in length of head, 24 to 3 times in interorbital width ; width 

 of mouth, with lips, f or i length of head ; lips with a marginal fringe 

 of papillEP, and with transverse plicse on inner surface ; edge of rostral 

 flap strongly denticulate ; a small barbel hidden under folds of skin ; 

 large spinose tubercles on snout. Dorsal III 11, falciform, equally 

 distant from anterior border of eye and from caudal, longest ray If times 

 length of head. Anal III 5, reaching beyond root of caudal. Pectoral 

 as long as head, not cpiite reacliing ventral, the first ray of which is below 



