358 CYPEmiD^. 



in the folds at side of mouth ; adult with large bony tubercles on 

 side of snout and below eye. Dorsal IV 10-11, about equally distant 

 from end of snout and from caudal, last simple ray slender, flexible, as 

 long as or a little longer than head ; border of fin emarginate. Anal 

 III 5, reaching, or nearly reaching, root of caudal. Pectoral longer than 



Fig. 269. 



Varicorhinus maroccanus. 

 Type, after Giinther (I. c). ^. 



head, sometimes reaching ventral, which is inserted below middle of 

 dorsal. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle If to 2 times as long 

 as deep. Scales 43-46 J^=^,, 4-5 between lateral line and root of 

 ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, whitish beneath. 



Total length 390 millim. 



Morocco. 



1-2. Hgr. & yg., Oum Erbiuh, near Mazagan. Mr. F. W. Eiggcnbach (C). 

 types. 



3. Ad. 



4. Yg., type. R. Talmist. 



6. VARICORHINUS TANGANIC^. 

 Capoeta tanganicai, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vi. 1900, p. 478, Poiss. Bass. 



Congo, p. 220 (1901), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xvi. 1901, p. 143, pi. xii. fig. 1. 

 Varicorhinus tanganicce, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 1905, p. 43, and 



Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. 1906, p. 549. 



Depth of body 3| to 4 times in total length, length of head 4f to 5 

 times. Snout rounded, broader than long, 8| to 4 times in length of 

 head ; eye perfectly lateral, 2f to ?>l times in length of head, 1^ to nearly 

 2 times in interorbital width ; mouth feebly curved, its width f that 



