BAEBUS. 177 



peduncle ; dorsal scales rough with minute spinose nuptial tubercles. 

 Brown above, whitish beneath, the scales on the sides darker in the 

 centre ; an ill-defined dark lateral band. 



Total length 110 millim. 



Cape Colony. 



1. Ad. Groote R., Sleytlerville. Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist (P.). 



2-5. Ad. & yg. Le Roux R., Ondtsloon. „ 



174. BARBUS ANOPLUS. 

 M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 151. 



Depth of body ':>§ to 4 times in total length, length of head 4 times. 

 Snout rounded, 3 to 3| times in length of head; eye 3 (young) to 

 4-g- times in length of head, interorbital width 3 times ; mouth terminal 



Fig. 155. 



Barbus anqplus. 

 Port Elizabeth. 



or subinferior ; lips moderate ; a single barbel on each side, \ (young) 

 to 1 diameter of eye. Dorsal III 7 (rarely 6), equally distant from 

 occiput and from caudal, border straight ; last simple ray not enlarged, 

 not serrated, a little shorter than head. Anal III 5, not reaching 

 caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, not reaching ventral ; base 

 of latter entirely or partly in advance of dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice 



5--6- 



as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 32-36 ~^, 3^ — 4^- between 

 lateral line and ventral, 12-14 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, 

 whitish beneath, the scales often darker in the centre ; a blackish lateral 

 streak from above origin of lateral line to root of caudal. 



Total length 80 millim. 



Eastern parts of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, Trans- 

 vaal. — Types in Amsterdam University Museum. 



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