44 



CYPKINID.E. 



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

 of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1J to If 

 times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 27-30 ^, 2^-3 



Fig. 24. 



Barbus tafesii. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1903). 



between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown 

 above, scales darker at the base, yellowish or white beneath ; tins 

 greyish. 



Total length 340 millim. 



Kribi River, South Cameroon ; Ogowe, 

 1. Type. Kribi R. G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



2-7. Ad., hgr., & yg. „ „ 



24. BARBUS BUMYSTUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 565, and Fish. Nile, p. 215, 

 pi. xxxviii. fig. 1 (1907). 

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

 Snout rounded, 3 times in length of head; eye 5 times in length of 

 head, interorbital width a little over 3 times ; mouth inferior, its width 

 4| times in length of head ; lips well developed, lower continuous 

 across chin and forming a small rounded median lobe ; two barbels on 

 each side, equal, 2-J diameters of eye. Dorsal IV 9, equally distant 

 from prseoperculum and from caudal, border strongly concave ; last 

 simple ray strong, bony, not serrated, straight, £ length of head. Anal 

 III 5, nearly reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, not 

 reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal 

 peduncle If times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 



5— 



31 |f, 2-j- between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. 



