CYPE1NID2E. 



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34. LABEO OAPENSIS, A. Smith. 

 Gilchrist & Thompson, t. c. p. 361. 



34 a. LABEO RUBROMACULATUS. 

 Gilchrist & Thompson, t. c. p. 359, fig. 



Body compressed, its depth 3J times in total length, length of head 

 4| times. Head If times as long as broad; snout rounded, feebly 

 extending beyond upper lip, longer than postocular part of head and 

 2;^ times in length of head ; eye lateral, 6f times in length of head ; 

 interorbital width a little more than ^ length of head ; width of mouth, 

 with lips, a little more than f length of head ; lips rather feebly developed, 



Fig. 132. 





Labeo rubromuculatus. 

 Type (Aun. S. Afr. Mus.). f . 



upper lip entire, lower feebly fringed with rounded papillae and with 

 the lower margin festooned; rostral flap with a denticulate fringe; two 

 barbels on each side, the anterior f diameter of eye, the posterior f . 

 Dorsal III 9, equally distant from nostrils and from root of caudal, 

 border concave ; longest ray nearly as long as head. Anal II 5, not 

 reaching caudal. Pectoral about as long as head, not reaching ventral ; 

 base of latter below 3rd or 4th branched ray of dorsal. Caudal deeply 

 notched, crescentic, with pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle 1 ^^ times as 

 long as deep. Scales 43 1|, &\ between lateral line and root of ventral, 

 20 round caudal peduncle. Dark olive-brown above, silvery beneath; 

 VOL. IV. ^ 



