BARBUS. 



93 



long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 32-33 ^f, 2 between lateral 

 line and ventral, 14 round caudal peduncle. Dark olive above, yellowish 

 beneath. 



Total length 170 millim. 

 Natal. 



Fie:. 71. 



Barhus lobochilus. 

 Type. f. 



1. Typo. 



Natal. 



Army Medical College (P.). 



80. BARBUS CHILOTES. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) ii. 1908, p. 494. 



Depth of body 3 J times in total length, length of head 4 or 4J times. 

 Snout rounded, about ^ length of head ; eye 3J (young) to 5 times in 

 length of head, interorbital width 2\ to 2f times; mouth inferior, its 

 width 3| to 4 times in length of head ; both lips much developed, each 

 more or less produced into an obtusely pointed median lobe ; two 

 barbels on each side, posterior nearly twice as long as anterior and a 

 little shorter than eye. Dorsal III 9-10, equally distant from eye and 

 from root of caudal, or a little nearer latter, border concave; last simple 

 ray not enlarged, flexible, smooth, 1^ times as long as head. Anal III 5, 

 reaching or nearly reaching caudal. Pectoral as long as head, not 

 reaching ventral ; base of latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal 

 peduncle 1-J times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 

 30-32 TT, 2-2i between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal 



