342 



CYPRINID.E. 



transverse plicae ; two barbels on each side, anterior -|, posterior f 

 diameter of eye ; snout with conical horny tubercles. Dorsal IV 10, 

 with concave upper border, a little nearer caudal than end of snout, 

 longest ray slightly longer than head. Anal III 5, nearly reaching root 



Fig. 257. 



Labeo ansorgii. 

 Type. 



of caudal. Pectoral nearly as long as head, not reaching ventral, which 

 is below middle of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked, with acutely pointed 

 lobes. Caudal peduncle slightly longer than deep. Scales 36 % 



2 



4 between lateral line and root of ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. 

 Silvery, back brownish. 

 Total length 65 millim. 



Angola. 



1. Type. 



2. Yg.* 



Swamps at Dongwenna, Mossamedes. 

 Cabro Negro. 



Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 

 Dr. Welvvitsch (P.). 



36. LABEO BARBATUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 36, pi. xix. fig. 2 (1898), and Poiss. Bass. 

 Congo, p. 218 (1901). 

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

 Head \\ to 1\ times as long as broad, 4 to 5 times in total length ; 

 snout rounded, very prominent, slightly longer than postocular part of 

 head ; eye siipero-lateral, 3^ (young) to 8 times in length of head, 11 to 

 4 times in interorbital width ; width of snout, with lips, f to | length 

 of head ; lips with transverse plica? on inner surface, upper entire, lower 

 fringed with conical papilla? ; rostral flap with denticulate edge ; two 

 much developed barbels on each side, much longer than e\e in adult, 



* This specimen, in bad condition, vas referred by Giinther to L. senega) 'ensis. 



