CrPRINID-E. 



279 



2-21 between lateral line and ventral, 12-14 round caudal peduncle. 

 Back bluish grey, sides and lower parts silvery white in females, bright 

 yellow in males; 10 to 15 bluish-black vertical bars on each side, above 

 the lateral line, the last usually expanding into a large blotch on the 

 caudal peduncle at root of caudal; fins white. 



Totallength ]20 millim. 



Angola. 



]-G. Types. Quanza R. at Dondo. Dr. W. J. Ansorge [C). 



Allied to £. Mngslei/w, but body less elongate, anal rays fewer, and 

 scales fewer. 



12. BARILTUS LOATI, Blgr. 

 ?Steinc]. Denkschr. Ak. Wien, Ixxxix. 1913, p. 27. 

 Add :— 



28. Ad. Xigcr above junction witli Beime. A. (!. Francis, Esq. (P.). 



Fig. 172. 



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Biii-'dhis lUiicrostuDia. 

 Type (P. Z. S. J 913). 4. 



12 a. BARILIUS MACROSTOMA. 

 Boideng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 51, pi. iii. fig. 2. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 3| times in total length. 

 Head 2g- times as long as broad ; snout pointed, projecting beyond 

 mouth, If times as long as eye, which is 4 1 times in length of head, 

 1^ times in interorbital width; mouth extending nearly to below posterior 

 border of eye; no barbels ; second suborbital deep, extending posteriorly 

 to vertical of posterior border of eye ; naked space between prgeoperculum 

 and suborbital about j diameter of eye. Gill-rakers few and very 



