BAEBUS. 



103 



width 3J to 4 times in length of head, lower jaw projecting beyond the 

 upper; lips well-developed, lower interrupted on the chin ; barbels two 

 on each side, anterior -| to f- diameter of eye, posterior as long as eye or 

 slightly shorter. Dorsal III 10, equally distant from eye and from 

 caudal, border concave ; last simple ray feeble, not stronger than those 

 following, § length of head. Anal II 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral 



Fig-. 81. 





Barbus progeny*. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1903). f . 



-f to § length of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter slightly 

 posterior to origin of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1^ to If times as long 

 as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 32-35 p^i, 2| between lateral 

 line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, brownish on the 

 back, dorsal and lateral scales brown at the base ; dorsal blackish 

 distally or with an ill-defined dark band across the middle ; other fins 

 whitish, anal sometimes edged with blackish. 



Total length 180 millim. 

 Kribi lliver, South Cameroon. 



1. Type. Kril i lliver. 



2-5. Ad. 



6. JSkel. „ 



G. L. Bate?, E,cj. (C.). 



91. BARBUS TRIMAGULATUS. 



Peters, Mori. Berl. Ac. 1852, p. 683, and Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 55, pi. xi. fig. 4 

 (18G8) ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. pp. 106 & 483 (1868), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1893, p. 619 ; Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, ciii. i. 1894, p. 452 ; M. Weber, 

 Zool. Jiilirb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 151. 



Barbus Ireijcti, M. Weber, t. c. p. 154. 



