CYPEINID^, 



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Olive-brown above, whitish beneath ; fins dark grey, often tinged with 

 red. 



Total length 160 millim. 

 Angola. 

 1-5. Types. 



Lucalla R. at Lucalla. 



Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C!.). 



ris;. 139. 



VaricorJiinus latirostris. 

 Type. I. 



ic. VARICORHINUS NEEIiSPRUiTENSIS. 



Gilchrist & Thompson, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) viii. 1911, p. 478, and Ann. S. A£r. 

 Mus. xi. 1913, p. 366, fig. 



Body compressed, depth of to 4 times in total length ; length of head 

 4^ to 4f times ; width of head f to f its length. Snout prominent, 

 rounded, shorter than postocular portion of head ; eye lateral, 4f to A^ 

 times in length of head and about 2 to 2y times in interorbital width ; 

 width of mouth about ^ length of head ; no barbel ; small tubercles on 

 snout; mouth feebly curved. Dorsal III 8-9, upper edge slightly 

 emarginate ; no ossified ray ; longest branched ray -| to about same 

 length as head. Anal II 5, not reaching base of caudal. Pectoral j 

 to about same length as head, not reaching ventral, which is inserted 

 below 2nd branched ray of dorsal. Caudal forked, lobes pointed. 



