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79 a. BARBUS GUNNINGIT. 

 Clilclirist & Tliompsou, Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xi. 1913, p. 391, fig. 



Depth of bodj' 3j to 34 times in total length, length of head 3f to 

 3| times. Snout obtusely pointed, not projecting beyond mouth, 2^ 

 to 2f times in length of head, eye 5 to 5| times, interorbital width 2f to 

 3 times ; mouth subinferior, its width 2| to 3 times in length of head ; 

 both lips greatly developed, each more or less strongly produced into an 

 obtusely pointed median lobe ; two barbels on each side, anterior ^ to f 

 diameter of eye, posterior f to 1|- times. Dorsal IV 9, about equally 



Pi". 151. 



Barbus gunningii. 

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



distant from eye and from root of caudal, or a little nearer to the latter, 

 border concave ; last simple ray segmented, moderately enlarged, from 

 To" to -nj length of head. Anal III 5, reaching, or almost reaching, root 

 of caudal. Pectoral f to | length of head, not reaching ventral ; base 

 of latter below middle or anterior third of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 

 l-j^o" to 1^ times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 

 28-30 -Tr*, 2^-3 between lateral line and root of ventral, 12 round 

 caudal peduncle. Dark yellowish brown above, lighter beneath. 



'J otal length 265 millim. 



Transvaal (Thabina R, Pienaars E., and Pretoria). — Types in 

 S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Near B. zamhesennis and B. lohochilus, but fewer scales in the lateral 



line. 



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