LABEO. 



827 



yellowish, with dark brown spots and marblings, and with black markin 

 on the fins. 



Kg. 245. 



gs 



Laheo cyclorhynchus. 

 Type (A. M. C). f 



Total length 160 millim. 



L'pper Congo. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervneren. 

 1-3. Yg. Monsembe. Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). 



22. LABEO FALCIPINNIS. 



Labeo faldfer (non C. & V.), Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 35, pi, xvii. 



fig. 2 (1898), and Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 215 (1901). 

 Labeo falcipinnis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 1903, p. 360. 



Body strongly compressed, its depth 3 to 4 times in total length. 



Head 4 times in total length, its width ^ its length ; snout rounded, 



a little swollen at the end ; eye in second half of head, supero-lateral, 



4 to 6 times in length of head, 2^ to 3 times in interorbital width ; width 



of mouth, with lips, |- or ^ length of head ; lips with a marginal fringe 



of papillae, and with transverse plicae on inner surface ; edge of rostral 



flap strongly denticulate ; a small barbel hidden under folds of skin ; 



large spinose tubercles on snout. Dorsal III ]1, falciform, equally 



distant from anterior border of eye and from caudal, longest ray If times 



length of head. Anal III 5, reaching beyond root of caudal. Pectoral 



as long as head, not quite reaching ventral, the first ray of which is below 



