76 CYPKINID^E. 



usually reaching caudal in adult. Pectoral § to f length of head, not 

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

 peduncle If to 2 times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 

 32-36 iFll 2i-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal 

 peduncle. Green, blue, brownish yellow, coppery red, or blackish above, 

 yellow or white beneath. 



Total length 530 millim. 



Lake Tsana, Abyssinia.— Types in Senckenberg Museum, Frank- 

 fort (M.). 

 1, 2-7, 8-13. Ad , hgr., Zegi and Bahardar. Mr. E. Degen (C). 



& yg- 



14. Skel. L. Tsana. 



60. BARBUS OXYRHYNCHUS. 



Pfeff. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. vi. 2, 1889, p. 18, and x. 2, 1893, p. 35, pi. i. 

 fig. 2, and Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 64 (1896). 



Depth of body equal to length of head, oj to 3^- times in total length. 

 Snout rather pointed, as long as eye, which is 3 times in length of head 

 (young) ; interorbital width also 3 times in length of head ; mouth 

 terminal, its width 4 times in length of head; lips feebly developed, 

 lower interrupted on chin ; two barbels on each side, anterior about \ 

 diameter of eye, posterior about § . Dorsal IV 8, equally distant from 

 eye and from caudal, border concave ; last simple ray very strong, bony, 

 not serrated, straight, as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. 

 Pectoral § length of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below 

 anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle \\ times as long as deep. 

 Scales longitudinally striated, 26-27 jf, 2 between lateral line and 

 ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, brownish on the back. 



Total length 55 millim. 



Ilufu River (Pangani), German East Africa. — Types (very young 

 specimens), in Hamburg Museum, examined. 



61. BARBUS PLATYRHINUS. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vi. 1900, p. 479, Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 223 

 (1901), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xvi. 1901, p. 144, pi. xii. fig. 2. 



Depth of body 3£ times in total length, length of head 4 times. Snout 

 broad and rounded, about ^ length of head ; eye 5^- times in length of 

 head, interorbital width 2J times ; mouth inferior, its width 3f times in 

 length of head ; lips moderately developed, lower interrupted on the 



