LABEO. 



&XJ 



yellowish, with dark brown spots and marblings, and with black markings 

 on the fins. 



Fig. 245. 



Labeo cydorliynchus. 

 Type (A. M. (J.), f 



Total length 1G0 millim. 



Upper Congo. — Type in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 

 1-3. Yg. Monsembe. Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). 



22. LABEO FALCIPINNTS. 

 Labeo faJcifer (non C. & V.), Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 35, pi. xvii. 



fig. 2 (1898), anil Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 215 (1901). 

 Labeo falcipinnis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 1903, p. 3(10. 



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

 Head 4 times in total length, its width § its length ; snout rounded, 

 a little swollen at the end ; eye in second half of head, supero-lateral, 

 4 to 5 times in length of head, 2^ to 3 times in interorbital width ; width 

 of mouth, with lips, f or ^ length of head ; lips with a marginal fringe 

 of papilla?, and with transverse plicae on inner surface ; edge of rostral 

 flap strongly denticulate ; a small barbel hidden under folds of skin ; 

 large spinose tubercles on snout. Dorsal III ]1, falciform, equally 

 distant from anterior border of eye and from caudal, longest ray If times 

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

 as long as head, not quite reaching ventral, the first ray of which is below 



