180 



CYPxUNlD.^. 



185. BARBUS PUMILUS. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 444, and Fish. Nile, p. 259, 

 pi. xlviii. fig. 2 (1907). 



Depth of body equal or nearly equal to length of head, about 3 times 

 in total length. Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is 

 o times in length of head and a little less than interorbital width; mouth 

 small, terminal ; lips feebly developed ; no barbels. Dorsal III 8, 

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

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



Fi^. 164. • 



Barbus 2>uinilus. 

 Type (F. N.). x 2. 



Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral shorter than head, reaching 

 or nearly reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. 

 Caudal peduncle IJ to 1| times as long as deep. Scales radiately 

 striated, 19-21 ^, IJ between lateral line series, which is formed of 

 very deep scales, and ventral, 9 round caudal peduncle; lateral line 

 reduced to 3 or 4 tubules. Yellowish above, scales edged with black, 

 white beneath ; a black streak on each side of the head, passing through 

 the eye ; a blackish vertical streak at the root of the anal ; dorsal and 

 anal with a red bar and one or two black ones. 



Total length 26 millim. 



AVhite Nile. 

 1-10. T\ pe:^. Lake No. L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



5. RASBORA. 

 Bleok. Nat. Tijdschr. Nedeil. Ind. xx. ISlJO, p. 435, and Atlas Ichtliyol. iii. \u 118 

 (18G3) ; Guiitli. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 193 (LSOS). 



Body more or less compressed, with rounded belly, covered with large 

 or moderate scales. Lateral line low down, following the ventral outline 

 of the body and running i'^ong the lower part of the caudal peduncle. 



