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head. Anal 11 5, reaching root of caudal. Pectoral hardly as long as 

 head, not reaching ventral, the first ray of which is below 7th of dorsal. 

 Caudal deeply notched, crescentic when fully spread out. Caudal 

 peduncle nearly as long as deep. Scales 38-39 yf, 4 between lateral 

 line and root of ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Purplish above, 

 lighter beneath ; scales edged with yellow. 



Total length 190 millim. 



Congo. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervucren. 



1. Yg., one of the types. Matadi, Lower Congo. Capt, Wilverth (C.). 



2. Yg. Stanley Pool. M. De Meuse (C). 



27. LABEO GREENII. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 29, pi. viii. fig. 4 (1902). 



Body feebly compressed, its depth 5 to 5^ times in total length. 

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

 obtusely pointed, very prominent ; eye supero-lateral, in second half of 

 head, 4 (young) to 5^ times in length of head, 2 to 3 times in iuter- 



PiR. 251. 





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orbital width ; width of mouth, with lips, a little more than half length 

 of head ; upper lip entire, lower very feebly fringed, both with transverse 

 plicae on the inner surface ; rostral flap very feebly denticulate ; a minute 

 barbel, hidden in folds of skin ; snout nearly entirely covered with large 

 spinose tubercles in adult. Dorsal III 10, a little nearer caudal than 

 end of snout, notched, longest ray 1^ to If times length of head. 



