80 



CTPRIXID.E. 



shorter than head, not approaching ventral ; base of latter below middle 

 of dorsal. Caudal peduncle slightly longer than deep. Scales longi- 

 tudinally striated, 27 ||, 2 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round 

 caudal peduncle. Olive-brown above, golden below, the scales darker 

 at the base ; fins dark. 



Fig. 57. 



Barhus micvoriema . 

 Type. |. 



Total length 340 millim. 

 Kribi River, South Cameroon. 

 1-2. Types. Kribi R. 



G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



GG. BARBUS BRUCIl. 

 Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 309, pi. xviii. fig. 1. 



Depth of body 3J to 3J times in total length, length of head 3|- to 4 

 times. Snout rounded-subacuminate, 2f times in length of head, 

 strongly projecting beyond mouth ; eye 5 times in length of head, 

 interorbital width nearly 3 times; mouth inferior, its width 4 to 4J 

 times in length of head ; lips strongly developed, upper sometimes 

 produced into a large lobe, lower continuous and forming a rounded or 

 subtriangular mental lobe ; two barbels on each side, anterior about \ dia- 

 meter of eye, posterior J to f . Dorsal IV 9, equally distant from centre 

 of eye and from root of caudal, border strongly concave ; last simple ray 

 strong, bony, not serrated, f length of head. Anal III 5, not reaching 

 root of caudal. Pectoral f length of head, not reaching ventral ; base 

 of latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1| times as long as 



