CYPRINID.E. 



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nostrils and from caudal, border very feebly notched, longest ray as 

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

 head, not reaching ventral, the first ray of which falls below the seventh 

 of dorsal. Caudal deeply notched. Caudal peduncle as long as deep. 

 Scales 37 |, 4 between lateral line and ventral, IG round caudal 

 peduncle. Olive above, whitish beneath ; fins dark. 



Total length 190 niillim. 



South Cameroon. 

 1. Type. Knbi R. ^1. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



Distinguished from L. ci/dorhpwlnis by the lower dorsal with fewer 

 branched rays (10 instead of 11 or 12). 



Fis. 128. 



Laheo rocadusi. 

 Type. h. 



2l-(. LABEO llOCADASI. 

 P..,ul,.nK. Ann. i Mag. N. H. (S) vi. 1010, p. .514. 



r.ody moderately compressed, its depth equal to or a little less than 

 length of head, 4 to 4| times in total length. Head 1^ to 1| times as 

 long as broad; snout rounded or obtusely pointed, strongly projecting, 

 more or less swollen, often with a more or less distinct curved transverse 

 groove above, its length I, or a little more than \, length of head (a little 

 less in the young) ; eye small, supero-latcral, 4 (young) to 6 times in 

 length of head ; interorbital width f to ^ length of head ; width of 

 mouth i, or a little less than h- length of head; lips strongl) developed, 



