200 



CTPRINIDJE. 



round caudal peduncle. Breeding males with conical tubercles on the 

 lower jaw. Silvery, brownish on the back ; 8 or 9 vertical bars, or pairs 

 of bars, on each side ; the membrane between some or all of the dorsal 

 and anal rays black. 



Fig. 175. 



Barilius neavii. 

 Type. I 



Total length 110 millim. 

 Zambesi System, Rhodesia. 



1-5. Types. Mountain stream near Petauke, S. A. Neave, Esq. (C). 



N.E. Rhodesia. 

 G. Ad. Makiibusi R., Mashonaland. J. ff. Darhng, Esq. (P.). 



9. BARILIUS UBANGENSIS. 

 Pellegr. Bull. Mas. Paris, 1901, p. 250; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soe. 1902, i. 



p. 266. 

 Barilius fasciolat US, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool.ii. p. 34, pi. ix. fig. 5 (1902). 



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

 times. Head twice as long as broad ; snout rounded, scarcely projecting 

 beyond mouth, as long as or a little longer than eye, which is 3 (young) 

 to 4-| times in length of head ; interorbital width 2^ to 3 times in length 

 of head ; mouth extending to below anterior border or anterior third of 

 eye ; no barbels ; naked space between prseoperculum and suborbitals 

 nearly equal to width of latter ; posterior border of second suborbital 

 below centre of eye. Gill-rakers few and short. Dorsal II-III 8-9, 

 originating at equal distance from centre or posterior border of eye and 

 from root of caudal, posterior half of its base above anal ; anterior rays 

 longest, § to f length of head. Anal III 12-14, notched, produced into 



