LABEO. 



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than head. A.nal III 5, nearly reaching root of caudal. Pectoral as 

 long as head, not reaching ventral, the first ray of which falls below 4th 

 branched ray of dorsal. Caudal deeply emarginate. Caudal peduncle 



Fig. 247. 



Labeo kirkii. 

 Type. i. 



a little longer than deep. Scales 39 ^f, 4 between lateral line and root 

 of ventral, 22 round caudal peduncle. Dark brown above, lighter 

 beneath. 



Total length 240 millim. 



Eovuma Eiver, East Africa. 

 1- Type. Eovuma R. Sir J. Kirk (P.). 



24. LABEO FORSKALTI. 

 Cyprlnus niloticus, var. h, Forskdl, Descr. Aniin. p. 71 (1775). 

 Labeo for skalii, Riipp. Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 18, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1835) ; Cuv. & Val. 



Hist. Poiss. xvi. p. 343 (1842) ; Heckel, Russegger's Eeise Egypt, iii. p. 301, 



pi. XX. fig. 2 (1846) ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 176, pi. sxvii. fig. 2 & pi. xxxi. 



fig. 3 (1907). 

 Labeo for skalii, part., Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 50 (1868), and Petherick's Trav. ii. 



p. 260 (1869). 



Body more or less compressed, its depth 3^ to 4|- times in total length. 

 Head 4 to 5 times in total length, its width f to y its length ; snout 

 rounded, strongly projecting, more or less swollen, often with a more or 

 less distinct curved transverse groove above, its length about half, or a 



