170 CYPEINIDJF. 



deeper anal, more slender caudal peduncle, and more numerous scales 

 (31-33 in the lateral line). 



Lake Nyassa. — Types in Berlin Museum. 



166. BARBUS YIVIPARUS. 

 M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 153. 



Depth of body 3 to 3£ times in total length, length of head 3^ to 4 

 times. Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is 3 times in 

 length of head; interorbital width 2\ times in total length; mouth 

 small, subinferior ; lips thin ; two barbels on each side, anterior a little 



Fig. 147. 



Barbus viviparus. 

 Durban. 



shorter than eye, posterior 1J to 1-^ diameters of eye. Dorsal III 8, 

 equally distant from centre of eye and from caudal, border straight ; last 

 simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, nearly as long as head. Anal II 5, 

 not reaching caudal. Pectoral J length of head, not reaching ventral ; 

 base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 1^- times 

 as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 29-31 p, 3 between lateral 

 line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Olive above, silvery 

 beneath ; a black line on each side of the head and body, meeting the 

 likewise black lateral line above the anal fin ; a black spot on each side 

 of the base of the anal fin. 



Total length 65 miliim. 



Natal. — Types in Amsterdam University Museum. 

 1. Ad. Near Durban. J. F. Quekett, Esq. (P.). 



167. BARBUS PERINCE. 

 Riipp. Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 12, pi. ii. fig. 2 (1837) ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 105 

 (1868), and Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 262 (1869) ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 246, 

 pi. xlvii. fig. 2 (1907). 



Depth of body 2f to 3 J times in total length, length of head 3| to 4| 



