BARBUS. 153 



feebly radiating stride* 29-31 ^% 2J-3 between lateral line and 



ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Dark green or olive above, yellowish 



beneath ; fins pale green. 



Pig. 129. 



Barhus inermis. 

 Type, after Peters (Reise Mossamb.). 



Total length 100 millim. 

 Lower Zambesi and Limpopo Systems. 

 1-3. Ad. & hgr. Groot Olifant R., Transvaal. Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 



147. BARBUS QUADRIPUNCTATUS. 

 Barhus trimaculatus (non Peters^, PfefF. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. x. 2, 1893, p. 37. 

 Barlms qtiadnpiinctatus, Pfeff. Thierw. O.-Afr., Fisclie, p. G4 (189()). 



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

 Snout rounded, shorter than eye, which is 2| times in length of head 

 (young?) ; interorbital width 2 J times in length of head; mouth small, 

 inferior ; lips moderate ; two barbels on each side, anterior a little shorter 

 than posterior, which measures about J diameter of eye. Dorsal III 8, 

 equally distant from eye and from caudal, border slightly concave ; last 

 simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, a little shorter than head. 

 Anal 11 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral f length of head, not reaching 

 ventral ; base of latter below middle of dorsal . Caudal peduncle nearly 

 twice as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 27-30 ^, 3 between 

 lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, back 

 brownish ; three or four small round blackish spots on each side, the 

 last at base of caudal. 



Total length 35 millim. 



Rufu River (Kingani), German East Africa, — Types (probably young), 

 in Hamburg Museum, examined. 



* In this respect the scales of this species may be said to establish a link between the 

 two divisions of the genus adopted in the present arrangement. 



