BABBITS. rO 



longer than deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 32 ||, 2 between 

 lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, the 

 scales blackish at the base, pink on the sides, white beneath ; dorsal and 

 ventrals yellow. 



Total length 390 millim. 



Upper Zambesi. 



1- Type. Near Victoria Falls. T. Codrington, Esq. (P.). 



86. BAR BUS WURTZI. 



Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1908, p. 200, and Bull. Soc. Philom. (9) x. 1908, p. 127, 

 fig. 



Depth of body a little over 3 times in total length, length of head 

 4 times. Snout rounded, about |- length of head ; eye 3^ times in length 

 of head, interorbital width 2-g- times; mouth small, inferior; lips feebly 

 developed, interrupted on the chin ; two barbels on each side, posterior 

 the longer and a little more than ^ diameter of eye. Dorsal III 10, 

 equally distant from eye and from root of caudal, border concave ; last 

 simple ray not enlarged, flexible, smooth, slightly longer than head. 

 Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral as long as head, not reaching 

 ventral; base of latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1 \ times 



4 1 



as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 29 ||, 1\ between 

 lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Dark olive-brown 

 above, white beneath.; fins brownish yellow. 



Total length 148 millim. 



Great Falls of Koukoure River, French Guinea. — Type in Paris 

 Museum. 



87. BARBUS MACROLEPIS. 

 Pfeff. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. vi. 1889, p. 17, x. 2, 1893, p. 34, pi. i. fig. 1, and 

 Thierw. O.-Afr., Fisclie, p. 63 (1896;. 



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

 rounded, 3J times in length of head ; eye 3^ to 3f times in length of 

 head, interorbital width 1\ times ; mouth inferior, semicircular, its width 

 %\ times in length of head ; lips moderately developed, lower restricted 

 to the sides ; lower jaw with obtusely angular edge ; two barbels on each 

 side, subequal, barely half diameter of eye. Dorsal IV 10-11, equally 

 distant from eye and from root of caudal, border deeply concave ; last 

 simple ray feebly enlarged, articulated except at the base, not serrated, 



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