BABBITS. 



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Dark olive above, silvery white beneath ; caudal yellowish, other fins 

 greyish. 



Total length 225 millim. 



Fig. 25. 



Barbus eumystus. 

 Type (F. N.). |. 



Juju River (Upper Blue Nile), Southern Ethiopia. 

 1. Type. Juju R., affluent o£ Didessa R., Mr. P. C. Zaphiro (C.) ; 



W. N. McMillan, Esq. (P.). 



2000 ft. 



25. BARBUS GREGORII. 

 Barbus intermedins (non Riipp.), Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 91. 

 Barbus gregori>, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 422, and xvii. 1906, 



p. 5G4. 

 Barbus neuvillii, Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1905, p. 293. 



Depth of body equal to or a little greater than length of head, 3^ to 

 3f times in total length. Snout rounded or subacuminate, 3 to 3^ times 

 in length of head; eye 4 (young) to 7 times in length of head, inter- 

 orbital width 3-j to 3-f times ; mouth inferior, its width 3^ to 4^ times 

 in length of head; lips much developed, lower uninterrupted and 

 produced into a more or less developed, rounded median lobe ; two 

 barbels on each side, anterior 1-g- to If diameters of eye, posterior 1^- 

 to 2. Dorsal 1II-1V 8-9, equally distant from occiput or eye and from 

 root of caudal, border concave; last simple ray very strong, bony, not 

 serrated, -§■ to \ length of head. Anal III 5, reaching or nearly reaching 

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

 latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Scales longitudinally striated, 

 29-34 41E5I, 2^—3 between lateral line and ventral, 12-14 round caudal 

 peduncle. Olive-brown above, silvery white beneath. 



