323 



CYPK1N1D.E. 



Oth of dorsal. Caudal deeply notched. Caudal peduncle deeper than 

 lono- Scales 39 Z^rk, 5 between lateral line and root of ventral, 20 round 

 caudal peduncle. Uniform brownish above, whitish beneath. 



Eig. 246. 



Labeo fu Icijjinnis. 

 Type (A. M. C). \. 



Total length 460 millim. 



Congo. — Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 



1. One of the types. 



2. Ad. 



New Antwerp, Upper Congo. 

 Monsembe, ,, 



Capt. Wilverth (C). 

 Rev. J. H. Weeks (P.). 



23. LABEO KIRKIL 



Labeo for skalii, part., Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 50 (1868). 

 Labeo kirtcii, Bonleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 1903, p. 360. 



Body moderately compressed, its depth equal to length of head and 

 4 times in total length. Head -| as broad as long ; snout obtusely 

 pointed, strongly projecting, with a strong curved transverse groove 

 above, its length \ that of head; eye supero-lateral, 6 times in length of 

 head, 1\ times in interorbital width ; width of mouth, with lips, -f length 

 of head; lips strongly developed, upper straight-edged, lower expanded 

 and bordered in front by a fringe of papillae, the posterior border 

 festooned; inner surface of lips with small papilla? forming numerous 

 transverse plicae ; rostral flap large, with denticulate edge ; snout with 

 < rater-like ecars of large tubercles. Dorsal III 10, equally distant from 

 nostrils and from caudal, upper edge concave, longest ray a little longer 



