BARI3US. 79 



posterior about -*- diameter of eye. Dorsal IV 9. equally distant from 

 eye and from root of caudal, border feebly concave; last simple ray 

 strong, bony, not serrated, its rigid part f length of head. Anal III 5, 

 not reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, not reaching 

 ventral ; base of latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If 

 times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 29 Jf, 2\ between 

 lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Muddy grey above, 

 white beneath ; dorsal yellowish grey ; caudal and paired fins bright 

 pink. 



Fig. 56. 



Barbus sector. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1907). 4. 



Total length 440 millim. 

 Groot Olifant River, Transvaal. 

 1. Type. Groot Olifant R. 



Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 



65. BARBUS MICRONEMA. 

 Bodeng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xiii. 1904, p. 237. 



Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 4 to 4^ times. 

 Snout rounded-subtruncate, 2-f to 3 times in length of head, with small 

 pearl-like granules on the sides ; eye 4-| to 5^ times in length of head, 

 interorbital width 2 to 2^ times ; mouth inferior, forming a broken arch, 

 a feebly curved transverse line in front, its width 3 times in length of 

 head ; edge of lower jaw forming a blunt keel ; lips feebly developed, 

 lower restricted to the sides ; barbels one or two on each side, the 

 anterior, if present, quite minute, the posterior \ diameter of eye. 

 Dorsal III 10, a little nearer occiput than root of caudal, border concave ; 

 last simple ray strong, bony, not serrated, its rigid part f to f length of 

 head. Anal III 5, reaching caudal. Pectoral as long as or a little 



