186 CYPRINID.E. 



185. BARBUS PUMILUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 444, and Fish. Nile, p. 259, 

 pi. xlviii. fig. 2 (1907). 

 Depth of body equal or nearly equal to length of head, about 3 times 

 in total length. Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is 

 3 times in length of head and a little less than interorbital width ; mouth 

 small, terminal ; lips feebly developed ; no barbels. Dorsal III 8, 

 equally distant from eye and from caudal, border feebly concave ; last 

 simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, a little shorter than head. 



Fig. 164. 



Barbus pumilas. 

 Type (F. N.). x 2. 



Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral shorter than head, reaching 

 or nearly reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. 

 Caudal peduncle 1^ to 1^ times as long as deep. Scales radiately 



3- 



striated, 19-21 gf, 1^ between lateral line series, which is formed of 

 very deep scales, and ventral, 9 round caudal peduncle ; lateral line 

 reduced to 3 or 4 tubules. Yellowish above, scales edged with black, 

 white beneath ; a black streak on each side of the head, passing through 

 the eye ; a blackish vertical streak at the root of the anal ; dorsal and 

 anal with a red bar and one or two black ones. 



Total length 26 millim. 



White Nile. 

 1-10. Types. Luke No. L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



5. RASBORA. 



Bleek. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xx. 1860, p. 435, and Atlas Ichtliyol. iii. p. 118 

 (1863) ; Gunth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 193 (1868). 



Body more or less compressed, with rounded belly, covered with large 

 or moderate scales. Lateral line low down, following the ventral outline 

 of the body and running along the lower part of the caudal peduncle. 



