158 



CYPETNID^. 



round caudal peduncle. Yellowish, back darker ; a blackish spot near 

 the tip of the dorsal. 



Total length GO millim. 



Algerian Sahara. — Types in Paris Museum. 



1. One of the types. Pool of Ifedil. Capt. Cortier (0.) ; 



Paris Museum (E.). 



153. BARBUS UNIT^NIATUS. 



Punthis vittatus (non Day), Steind. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi. 18GG, p. 7(j7, 



pi. xvii. fi^'. 2. 

 Barlms ntiitcematus, Giinth. Zool. Rec. 18G6, p. 151, and Cat. Fish. vii. p. 103 



(18G8) ; M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 151. 



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

 times. Snout rounded, as long as or shorter than eye, which is 3 to 

 3^ times in length of head ; interorbital width 3 times in length of 

 head ; mouth small, subinferior ; lips moderate ; two barbels on each side, 

 posterior longer than anterior and as long as or a little longer than eye. 



Fitr. 135. 



liarbus unikeniatits. 

 Type, after Steindachner (?. c). 



Dorsal III S, equally distant from snout or eye and from caudal, border 

 straight or slightly concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, 

 nearly as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral a 

 little shorter than head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter below 

 anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If to 2 times as long as deep. 

 Scales radiately striated, 30-33 4r_-ji» 2^-3 between lateral line and 

 ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, yellowish beneath, 

 with a more or less distinct dark lateral band which may end in a round 



