BARBUS. 



93 



long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 32-33 |f, 2 between lateral 

 line and ventral, 14 round caudal peduncle. Dark olive above, yellowish 

 beneath. 



Total length 170 millim. 



Natal. 



Pig. 71. 



Barbus lobochilus. 



Type. 



1. Type 



Natal. 



Army Medical College (P.). 



80. BARBUS CHILOTES. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) ii. 1908, p. 494. 



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

 Snout rounded, about j length of head ; eye 3J (young) to 5 times in 

 length of head, interorbital width 2\ to 2-| times; mouth inferior, its 

 width 3 J to 4 times in length of head ; both lips much developed, each 

 more or less produced into an obtusely pointed median lobe; two 

 barbels on each side, posterior nearly twice as long as anterior and a 

 little shorter than eye. Dorsal III 9-10, equally distant from eye and 

 from root of caudal, or a little nearer latter, border concave; last simple 

 ray not enlarged, flexible, smooth, l\ times as long as head. Anal III 5, 

 reaching or nearly reaching caudal. Pectoral as long as head, not 

 reaching ventral; base of latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal 

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

 30-32 % 2-2i between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal 



