324 CYPKIXIDiE. 



not quite once and J as long as broad ; eye more supero-lateral ; width 

 of mouth ^ length of head. Dorsal with straight upper edge. Caudal 

 peduucle not longer than deep. Scales 36 ||, 4 between lateral line and 

 root of ventral. Olive, scales with dark edges forming a network ; a 

 dark spot behind the gill-opening ; dorsal blackish. 



Total length 300 millim. 



Lake Rukwa. — Type in Berlin Museum. 



19. LABEO BRACHYPOMA. 

 Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 50 (1866) ; Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 1903, 



p. 261. 

 Labeo walkeri, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, ii. p. 338, pi. xxxiii. 



Body strongly compressed, its depth 3 to 3f times in total lensth. 

 Head 4 to 4j times in total length, 1^ to If times as long as broad ; 



Fig. 243. 



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Labeo brachi/poma. 

 Type of L. walkeri, after Gunther (P. Z. S. 1002). |. 



snout rounded, slightly projecting; eye supero-lateral, in second half of 

 head, 4 to 5 times in length of head, 2 to 2-j times in interorbital width; 

 width of mouth, with lips, \ to § length of head ; lips feebly fringed, 

 with transverse plicee on inner side ; rostral flap entire ; a small barbel, 

 hidden in folds of skin ; snout with large tubercles. Dorsal III-IV 9-11, 

 equally distant from centre of eye or nostrils and from caudal, upper edge 

 straight or convex, longest ray 1| to 1\ times length of head. Anal 



