80 



CTPRINlDiE. 



shorter than head, not approaching ventral ; base of latter below middle 

 of dorsal. Caudal peduncle slightly longer than deep. Scales longi- 

 tudinally striated, 27 % 2 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round 

 caudal peduncle. Olive-brown above, golden below, the scales darker 

 at the base ; fins dark. 



Pig. 57. 



Barbtis micronema. 

 Type. |. 



Total length 340 millim. 

 Kribi River, South Cameroon. 

 1-2. Types. Kribi R. 



G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



66. BARBUS BRUCI1. 

 Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 309, pi. xviii. fig. 1. 



Depth of body 3^ to 3-f times in total length, length of head 3|- to 4 

 times. Snout rounded-subacuminate, 2-f times in length of head, 

 strongly projecting beyond mouth ; eye 5 times in length of head, 

 interorbital width nearly 3 times ; mouth inferior, its width 4 to 4 J 

 times in length of head ; lips strongly developed, upper sometimes 

 produced into a large lobe, lower continuous and forming a rounded or 

 subtriangular mental lobe ; two barbels on each side, anterior about J dia- 

 meter of e)e, posterior -f to f . Dorsal IV 9, equally distant from centre 

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

 strong, bony, not serrated, f- length of head. Anal III 5, not reaching 

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

 of latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If times as long as 



