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15. BARBUS MAREQUENSIS. 



Barhus {Cheiloharhu s) mareguensis, A. Smith, 111. Zool. IS. Afr,, Fish. pi. x. fig. 2 

 (1841). 



Depth of body nearly equal to length of head, nearly 4 times in total 

 length. Snout rounded, 3 times in length of head; eye 5| times in 

 length of head, interorbital width 2^ times ; mouth inferior, its width 

 about ^ length of head ; lips well developed, lower continuous across 

 the chin ; two barbels on each side, subequal, about 1^ diameters of 

 eye. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from occiput and from caudal, border 



Fig. 10. 



Barhus marequensis. 

 Type, after A. Smith {op. cit.). 3. 



scarcely emarginate ; last simple ray rather feeble, bony, not serrated, 

 nearly f length of head. Anal III 5, reaching root of caudal. Pectoral 

 f length of head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter slightly behind 

 origin of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1| times as long as deep. Scales longi- 

 tudinally striated, 33 p, 3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round 

 caudal peduncle. Olive-brown above, yellow beneath ; lips and barbels 

 dull flesh-colour ; fins pale yellow, shaded with dull yellowish brown. 



Total length 350 millim. 

 Interior of South Africa. 

 1. One of the types, stuffed. 



S. Africa. 



Sir A. Smith (P.). 



IG. BARBUS ALTIANALIS. 



BoulencT. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vi. 1900, p. 479, Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 223 

 (1901), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xvi. 1901, p. 144, pi. xiii. fig. 1. 



Depth of body equal to or slightly greater than length of head, which 

 is contained 4 to 4i times in total length. Snout rounded, projecting 

 beyond mouth, 3 to 3^ times in length of head ; eye 5 to 5^ times in 



