VARICORHINUS. 353 



8 rays. Pharyngeal teeth in three series (2, 3, 4 or 5 — 5 or 4, 3, 2), 

 ■with spoon-shaped crowns, which may be close together as in Lctbeo or 

 more wide apart as in Barbus. 



South-western and Central Asia, Africa. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Less than 40 scales in the lateral line ; last simple raj of dorsal strong and 



ossified. 



A. Two pairs of barbels. 



D. IV 9 ; Sc. 29 —_ ; caudal peduncle as long- 

 as deep; ventral below anterior soft rays 



of dorsal 1. V. ansorgii, Blgr., p. 353; 



4- 

 D. IV 9 ; Sc. 31 ■— ; caudal peduncle twice 



as long as deep ; ventral below middle 



of dorsal 2. V. brucii, Blgr., p. 354. 



B. One pair of barbels ; dorsal originating in advance of ventrals. 

 D. IV 11 ; Sc. 31 % ; caudal peduncle H 



times as long as deep 3. V. tornieri, Stdr., p. 355. 



D. IV 9 ; Sc. 30-35 |Q ; caudal peduncle 



1|— 2 times as long as deep , . . . i. V. beso, Riipp., p. 356. 



II. More than 40 scales in the lateral line ; one pair of barbels. 

 D. IV 10-11, originating in advance of 



ventrals, last simple ray slender and 



flexible ; Sc. 43-46 ffizjok •>• *"• mciroccanus, Gthr., p. 357. 



D. IV 8-9, originating above ventrals, last 

 simple ray very strong and ossified ; 



Sc. 64-70 fTjFjg! 6. V. tanganicce, Blgr., p. 358. 



1. VARICQRHINUS ANSORGII. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 111. 



Depth of body twice and f in total length, length of head 5 times. 

 Snout rounded, broader than long, f length of head ; eye supero- 

 lateral, its diameter 5^ times in length of head, twice in interorbital 

 width ; mouth wide, curved, its width f length of head ; two barbels on 

 each side, anterior § diameter of eye, posterior as long as eye. Dorsal 

 IV 9, equally distant from eye and from caudal, last simple ray strong, 

 bony, not serrated, shorter than head ; border of fin convex ; longest 



vol. I. 2 a 



