LABEO. 



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than head. Anal III 5, nearly reaching root of caudal. Pectoral as 

 long as head, not reaching ventral, the first ray of which falls below 4th 

 branched ray of dorsal. Caudal deeply eraarginate. Caudal peduncle 



Fig. 247. 



Labco kir/cii. 

 Type. i. 



a little longer than deep. Scales 39 yf, 4 between lateral line and root 

 of ventral, 22 round caudal peduncle. Dark brown above, lighter 

 beneath. 



Total length 240 millira. 



Eovuma River, East Africa. 

 1. Type. Eovuma R. Sir J. Kirk (P.). 



24. LABEO FORSKALII. 



Cyprinus niloticus, var. h, Forskal, Descr. Anim. p. 71 (1775). 



Labeoforskalii) Riipp. Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 18, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1835) ; Guv. & Val. 



Hist. Poiss. xvi. p. 343 (1842) ; Heckel, Russegger's Reise Egypt, iii. p. 301, 



pi. xx. fig. 2 (1846) ; Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 176, pi. xxvii. fig. 2 & pi. xxxi. 



fig. 3 (1907). 

 Labeo/orskalii, part., Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 50 (1868), and Petherick's Trav. ii. 



p. 260 (1869). 



Body more or less compressed, its depth 3^ to 4 \ times in total length. 

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

 rounded, strongly projecting, more or less swollen, often with a more or 

 less distinct curved transverse groove above, its length about half, or a 



