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CYPRINID.^. 



inferior, its width 3 to 4 times in length of head ; lips strongly 

 developed, lower continuous across chin and often produced into a 

 long rounded median lobe ; two barbels on each side, anterior f to y|- 

 diameter of eye, posterior as long as eye or a little shorter. Dorsal III 

 8 (rarely 9), equally distant from occiput and from root of caudal, 

 border feebly concave; last simple ray strong, bony, not serrated, 

 straight, ^ to | length of head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. 

 Pectoral f to f length of head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter 



Fiff. 14. 



Barbus lohoaeni/s. 

 Type(r. N.). ^ 



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

 as deep. Scales longitudinally stiiated, 32-36 y, 3-3^ between lateral 

 line and ventral, 12-14 round caudal peduncle. Coppery brown above, 

 pinkish or brassy yellow on the sides, the scales dark brown at the base ; 

 silvery white below; pectoral and ventral fins orange; dorsal, anal, and 

 caudal yellow at the base, greyish or blackish towards the border. 



Total length 540 millim. 



Lake Victoria. 

 1. Ad., skin, typo. Baganoa. 



2-7. Hgr. & Yg., typo.-. Bunjako. 



Mr. E. Degen ((\). 



14. BABBUS EADCLIFFII. 

 Bouleug. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 11)03, p. 218, and Fisli. Nilo, p. 212, 



pi. xxxvii. fig. 1 (1907). 

 Barbus marequensis (non Siuitli), Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvii. 1905, 

 p. 177. 

 Depth of body equal to or a little greater than length of head, 3 to 4 



