LABEO. 



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notched, falciform, last unbranched ray and first branched ray twice 

 length of head. Anal III 5, reaching root of caudal. Pectoral as long 

 as head, not reaching ventral, the first ray of which falls below second 

 branched ray of dorsal. Caudal notched, crescentic. Caudal peduncle 

 slightly deeper than long. Scales 36 ?f, 3| between lateral line and 

 root of ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Yellowish, with dark brown 

 lines running between the series of scales. 



Total length 225 millim. 



Upper Congo. 

 1. Type. Monsembe. Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). 



6. LABEO LINEATUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 34, pi. xviii. (1898), and Poiss. Bass. Congo, 

 p. 213 (1901). 



Body strongly compressed, its depth 3 to 3^ times in total length. 

 Head 4 to 5 times in total length, its width about -§- its length ; snout 

 rounded ; eye perfectly lateral, in middle of head or a little nearer 



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Labt'O Uneatus. 

 Type (A. M. C). |. 



posterior border, 3^ (young) to 6 times iu length of head, 2 to 4£ times 

 in interorbital width ; width of mouth, with lips, 2| to 3 times in 

 length of head ; both lips with several rows of conical papilla?, the outer 

 forming a fringe ; edge of rostral flap entire or feebly denticulate ; a 

 minute barbel, move or less hidden under folds of skin; tubercles on 

 snout, or their pore-like scars, small, if present. Dorsal III 9-12, 

 equally distant from snout or eye and from caudal, upper edge not or 



