BAEBUS. 



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not reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, reaching 

 ventral or not so far; base of latter below anterior half of dorsal. 

 Caudal peduncle 1| to 1| times as long as deep". Scales radiately 

 striated, 25-27 % 2^-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round 

 caudal peduncle. Brown above ; a rather indistinct dark lateral band 

 sometimes present ; a small round black spot at root of caudal. 



Fig. 115. 



Barbus kessleri. 

 Type of B. caudimacula. 



Total length 65 millim. 



Angola. — Type in Vienna Museum. 



1-18. Types of B. Golungo Alto. 

 caudimacula. 



19-22. Ad. Pungo Andongo. 



23-24. Ad. Benguella. 



Dr. Welwitsch (P.). 



Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 

 Dr. F. C. Wellmon (P.). 



131. BARBUS HOLOT^NIA. 



Barbus kessleri, part., Griinth. Cat. Pish. vii. p. 107 (1868). 



Barbus kessleri (non Steind.), Griinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xvii. 1896, p. 277 ; 



Boideng. Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 225 (1901). 

 Barbus holotcenia, Boideng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xiv. 1904, p. 218. 

 Barbus camptacanthus, var. cottesi, Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1907, p. 320. 



Depth of body 2-J to 3\ times in total length, length of head 3-^ to 

 4^ times. Snout rounded, as long as or slightly longer than eye, which 

 is 3 (young) to 4 times in length of head ; interorbital width 2^ to 3 

 times in length of head ; mouth subinferior, its width 3 to 3^ times 

 in length of bead ; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each side, 

 anterior about as long as eye, posterior 1^ to 1-J as long as eye. 

 Dorsal 111 8 (rarely 9), equally distant from anterior border or centre 

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

 as long as or a little shorter than head, usually rather feebly ossified 



