CTPEIXID^. 



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head. Anal II 5, reaching caudal. Pectoral l^jj times as long as 

 head, falciform, scarcely reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior 

 rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle Ij times as long as deep. Scales 

 longitudinally striated, 28 ^, IJ between lateral line and ventral, 14 

 round caudal pedu.ncle. Greenish, darker above than below ; all fins 

 except ventral edged with white ; a dark diagonal band on base of each 

 lobe of caudal ; scales on upper part of body edged with black. 



Total length 328 millim. 



Crocodile II., Transvaal. — Type in S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Closely allied to £. victorice. Barbels longer. 



Fig. 152. 





Barbus eooJcii. 

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



84 a. BARBUS SWIERSTR^. 

 Gilchrist & Thompson, t. o. p. 393, fig. 



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

 4^ times. Snout blunt, 2f to 3 times in length of head ; eye 5| to 5| 

 times in length of head, interorbital width 2f to 2| times ; mouth 

 inferior, its width 2f to 2f times in length of head ; lips moderate, 

 lower with a small mental lobe ; lower jaw rather sharp-edged ; two 

 barbels on each side, subeqtial or posterior the longer, | to about as long 

 as eye ; head with minute tubercles. Dorsal IV 9, equally distant from 

 eye and from caudal, border concave ; last simple ray slightly enlarged, 

 segmented down to basal third, nearly as long as head. Anal III 5, 



