LABEO. 



13 



OJLD 



as deep. Scales 38-39 ^f, 5 between lateral line and root of ventral, 

 18 round caudal peduncle. Grey above, silvery white beneath. 



Total length 300 millim. 



Limpopo System. — Type in Vienna Museum. 



Fig. 234. 



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i_ii Sisssa^ 



Labeo rosce. 

 Type, after Steindachner (I. c). |. 



1-2. Ad. 



Klein Letaba R., tributary o£ 

 Olifant E., Transvaal. 



Mr. C. Grant (C.) ; 

 0. D. Eudd, Esq. (P.). 



8. LABEO MESOPS. 

 Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 51 (1868). 

 Laheo coubie, part., Giinth. t. c. p. 48. 



Body strongly compressed, its depth 3-| to 4-j times in total length. 

 Head 4 to 5 times in total length, its width f its length ; snout rounded ; 

 eye perfectly lateral, in middle of head, 4J to 5 times in length of head ; 

 interorbital width f- length of head ; width of mouth, with lips, 2| to 3 

 times in length of head ; both lips with several rows of papillas, those 

 of the outer row conical and forming a fringe ; edge of rostral nap 

 entire ; a minute barbel hidden under folds of skin ; tubercles on snout 

 small. Dorsal 111 10-12, equally distant from centre or anterior 

 border of eye and from caudal, notched, longest ray as long as head. 

 Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral as long as head, not reaching 

 ventral, the first ray of which falls below 4th or 5th ray of dorsal. 

 Caudal emarginate, crescentic. Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long as 



