520 



CYPEINIDJE. 



14. LABEO NEUMANNI. 

 Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, ii. p. 329, pi. xxix. 



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

 Head 4-g- to 4f times in total length, 1^ to lg- times as long as broad ; 

 snout rounded, its length | to a little less than \ that of head ; eye 

 perfectly lateral, 4-g- to 5^ times in length of head ; interorbital width \ 

 length of head ; width of mouth, with lips, •§■ to \ length of head ; lips 

 with small papillae forming transverse plicas ; lower lip with a fringe 

 of conical papillae ; rostral flap large, with denticulate edge ; a minute 

 barbel in the corner of the mouth, hidden under folds of skin. Dorsal 



Pig. 240. 



Laheo neumanni. 

 Type (P. Z.S. 1903). f 



III 11-12, a little nearer end of snout than caudal, its upper edge 

 concave, longest ray as long as or slightly longer than head. Anal 

 III 5, reaching or nearly reaching root of caudal. Pectoral as long 

 as or a little longer than head, not quite reaching ventral, the first 

 ray of which falls below 4th or 5th branched ray of dorsal. Caudal 

 deeply emarginate, crescentic when fully spread out. Caudal peduncle 

 11 to 1-g- times as long as deep. Scales 89-40 gr^) 6 between lateral 

 line and root of ventral, 16-18 round caudal peduncle. Olive above, 

 whitish beneath ; fins greyish. 



