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■M\,i. LABEO SEEBEKI. 

 Gilclnist & Thompson, Ann. & Mag. X. II. {!<) viii. 1011, p. 477, aii.l Ann. S. Al'r. 

 Mus. xi. llii:?, p. 3i7, fig. 

 Depth of body nearly 5 times in total length, length of head 4h 

 times; width of head nearly | its length. Snout prominent, projecting, 

 rounded and slightly pointed, longer than postocular part of head and 

 2-i\i times in length of head; eye lateral, nearer gill-opening than to 

 end of snout, 7 times in length of head and oi times in interorbital 

 width; width of mouth, with lips, a little more than -^ Icngtli of head ; 

 lips well developed, with trnnsverse plicae on inner surface, fringed with 

 pai)ilhc, the lower lii) witli prominent papilla^ scattered on it and 



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Lahco sceberi. 

 Typo (Ann. S. Afr. iMu.s.). f^. 



festooned on lower edge; rostral flap fringed; no visible baibcl. 

 ])orsal IV 0, nearly equidistant from nostril and base of caudal, upper 

 border cmarginate ; longest branched ray about i length of liead. 

 Anal III 5, not reaching base of caudal. Pectoral f length of head, 

 not reaching ventral, which is inserted below 4th branched ray of dorsal. 

 Caudal deeply forked, lower lobe pointed aiul longer than upper. 

 Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. Scales 83 y,^, IG between 

 lateral line and root of ventral, about 32 round caudal peduncle. Dark 

 bluish brown above, light-coloured on belly ; body covered with minute 

 dark spots. 



Total length 2G8 millim. 



Olifants River, Transvaal. — Type in S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Distinguished from all other African species by the very small scales. 



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