120 CYPKINID^. 



107. BARBUS THIKENSIS. 

 Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, i. p. 63, pi. vii. fig. 2. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 3| to 3| times in total length. 

 Snout rounded, as long as eye, which is 3§ to 4 times in length of head ; 

 interorbital width 2\ to 2f times in length of head ; mouth small, 



Fig. 96. 



Barbus thikensis. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1905). 



terminal ; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each side, anterior § 

 diameter of eye, posterior a little shorter than eye. Dorsal III 7, 

 equally distant from eye and from root of caudal, border straight or 

 slightly convex ; last simple ray bony, strongly serrated, about f length 

 of head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral |- to f length of 

 head, not reaching or nearly reaching ventral ; base of latter partly in 

 front of and partly beneath dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice as long as 

 deep. Scales radiately striated, 33-35 ^r\3-3| between lateral line 

 and ventral, 12-14 round caudal peduncle. Brownish, with a more or 

 less distinct dark streak along the middle of the side ; lateral line 

 often blackish ; fins grey ; a blackish spot sometimes present at base 

 of anal. 



Total length 55 millim. 



Thika 11. (Tana System), East Africa; Lake Victoria. 



1-30. Types. Thika R., 3000 ft. S. L. Hinde, Esq. (P.). 



31. Ad. Kisumu Bay, L. Victoria. A. Blayney Percival, Esq. (P.). 



108. BARBUS PLEUROGRAMMA. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 436, and Fish. Nile, p. 242, pi. xlvii. 

 fig. 1 (1907). 



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

 Snout rounded, shorter than eye, which is 3-j times in length of head ; 

 interorbital width 3 times in length of head ; mouth terminal, its width 

 4 1 times in length of head ; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each 



