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ADDENDA, VOL. II. 



on each side, posterior longer than anterior and f diameter of eye. 

 Dorsal IV 9, border slightly emarginate ; last simple ray not enlarged, 

 flexible, smooth, -^^ length of head. Anal III 5, reaching base of 

 caudal. Pectoral a little more than | length of head and not reaching 

 ventral, which is inserted below posterior half or middle of dorsal. 

 Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally 

 striated, 30 f ; lateral line very indistinct anteriorly and marked on 

 posterior half of body by small round pits ; 3 rows of scales between 



Fig. 154. 



Barhus nasiittis. 

 Type (Ann. S. Afr. Mas.). 



lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Bluish above, 

 flesh-coloured beneath. 



Total length 360 millim. 



Sabi River, Transvaal, and Victoria Falls, Upper Zambesi. — Types in 

 S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Occupies an isolated position at the end of Division I. C. of the 

 Synopsis; distinguished from Varicorhinus by the development of 

 the lip on the sides of the lower jaw. 



89 c. BAEBUS ALLUAUDI. 

 Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool, France, xxii. 1910, p. 287, pi. xiv. fig. 2. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 4 times in total length. Snout 

 rounded, 1^ times diameter of eye, which is 4 times in length of head ; 

 mouth inferior, strongly arched, its width hardly ^ length of head ; a 



