CYPE1NID.E. 



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36 a. LABEO SEEBERI. 



Gilchrist & Thompson, Ann. & Mag. N. H. («) viii. 1911, p. 477, and Ann. S. A£r. 

 Mus. xi. 1913, p. 347, fig. 



Depth of body nearly 5 times in total length, length of head 4 J 

 times ; width of head nearly f its length. Snout prominent, projecting, 

 rounded and slightly pointed, longer than postocular part of head and 

 2-ny times in length of head ; eye lateral, nearer gill-opening than to 

 end of snoTit, 7 times in length of head and 3j times in interorbital 

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

 lips well developed, with transverse plicae on inner surface, fringed with 

 papillse, the lower lip with prominent papillse scattered on it and 



Pig. 133. 



Laheo seeberi. 

 Type (Ann. S. Afr. Mus.). fV- 



festooned on lower edge; rostral flap fringed; no visible barbel. 

 Dorsal IV 9, nearly equidistant from nostril and base of caudal, upper 

 border emarginate; longest branched ray about j length of head. 

 Anal III 5, not reaching base of caudal. Pectoral f length of head, 

 not reacbino' ventral, which is inserted below 4th branched ray of dorsal. 

 Caudal deeply forked, lower lobe pointed and longer than upper. 



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Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. Scales 83 gy, 16 between 

 lateral line and root of ventral, about 32 round caudal peduncle. Dark 

 bluish brown above, light-coloured on belly ; body covered with minute 

 dark spots. 



Total length 268 millim. 



Olifants River, Transvaal. — Type in S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Distin'Tuished from all other African species by the very small scales. 



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