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times, interorbital width 2h times; mouth subinferior, its width 

 3| times in length of head ; li]>s moderately developed, lower wiih 

 a small median lobe ; two barbels on each side, anterior about 

 f diameter of eye, posterior slightly longer than eye. Dorsal IV 0, 

 si tun ted nearer to root of caudal than to eye, border concave ; last 

 simple ray slightly enlarged, bony, flexible, segmented down to its 

 basal third, nearly as long as head. Anal III o, reaching caudal. 

 Pectoral nearly as long as head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter 

 below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long as 

 deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 30 p, 2| between lateral line and 

 ventral, 14 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, darker above than below ; 

 distal extremity of dorsal dark. 



Total length 178 millim. 



Natal. — 'lype in S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Near B. howken, but scales fewer and caudal peduiule .-huiter. 



11a. BAinU.S FASULT. 



rappcnli. in .Scliubot/., Wis.<. Ergclm. Deiitscli. Z.-At'r. Exped., Zoul. iii. j'. iMO. 

 pi. iii. fig. 2 (lttl4). 



Depth of body 3| times in total length, length of head 3* times. 

 Snout obtnse, a little more than o times in lengtii of head, eye 7 times, 

 interorbital width a little more than twice ; mouth inferior, its width 

 nearly 2| times in length of head : lips much developed, lower nniuter- 

 rupted, with a short, truncate, median lobe ; two barbels on each side, 

 anterior slightly shorter than eye, posterior slightly longer. Dorsal III ?, 

 a little nearer occiput than root of caudal ; last simple ray flexible, not 

 cnlavf^ed, a little over f length of liend. Anal III 5, not reaching 

 caudal. Pectoral | length of head, not reaching ventral ; latter below 

 middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle nearly li} times as long as deep. 

 Scales longitudinally striated, 25-26 4, 2 between lateral line and 

 ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown, darker above ; each scale 

 with a darker base and a lighter edge. 



Total length 500 millim. 



Itnri River, Congo. — Type in Berlin Museum. 



Distin<^uished from B.johustonii by the lower number of scales. 



