322 



CYPEINID^. 



notched upper border, equally distant from nostril or end of snout and 

 fi om caudal ; longest ray equal to or exceeding length of head. Anal 

 II 5, longest ray nearly as long as the head and reaching root of 

 caudal. Pectoral as long as head, not reaching ventral. Ventral 

 nearly reaching vent, first ray falling under 7th of dorsal. Caudal 

 deeply forked. Caudal peduncle scarcely longer than deep. Scales 



Fig. 241. 



Laheo darlingi. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1902). 



6i 



36-39 ^, 4-5 between the lateral line and root of ventral, 16-20 round 

 caudal peduncle. Olive-brown above, whitish beneath ; fins dark. 



Total length 160 millim. 



Zambesi (Mazoe River) and Limpopo (Olifants River) Systems. 



1. Type. Mazoe R., near Salisbury, J. ff. Darling, Esq. (P.). 



Mashonaland. 

 i- Yg. „ „ 



3. Ad. Klein Letaba (affluent of Mr. C. Grant (C.) ; 



Olifants R.), Transvaal. C. D. Rudd, Esq. (P.). 



17. LABEO VICTORIANUS. 

 Laheo for skalii (non Riipp.), Hilgend. Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berl. 1888, p. 78. 

 Labeo virtorianus, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii. p. 159, and Fish. Nile, p. 174, 

 pi. xsxii. fig. 1 (1907). 



Body compressed, its depth equal to or a little greater than length of 

 head, 4 to 4f times in total length. Head about 1^ to If times as 

 long as broad; snout rounded, with small horny warts in the adult, its 

 length about -j to | that of head ; eye perfectly lateral, in middle or 

 a little anterior to middle of head, 5 (young) to 6§ times in length of 

 head ; interorbital width J to f length of head ; width of mouth about ^ 

 to f length of head ; lips not distinctly fringed on the edge with small 



