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CYPEINIDiE. 



middle of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle once and \ 

 as long as deep. Scales 31 % 2^ between lateral line and ventral, 

 12 round caudal peduncle. Dark brown above, yellow beneath. 



Total length 180 millim. 



Nyong River District, South Cameroon. — Types in Vienna Museum. 



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4. VARICORHINUS BESO. P 



Varicorhinus beso, Riipp. Mas. Senckenb. ii. p. 21, pi. iii. fig. 2 (1837) ; Boaleng. 



Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 422, and Fish. Nile, p. 191, pi. xxxiii. 



(1907). 

 Chondrostoma dillonii, Onv. & Vol. Hist. Poiss. xvii. p. 404 (1844). 

 Labeo varicorhinus, Guv. & Val. t. c. p. 491. 

 Dillonia dillonii, Heckel, Russegger's Reis. Egypt, iii. p. 285 (1846) ; Vincig. 



Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. 1883, p. 699. 

 Dillonia abi/ssinica, Heckel, t. c. p. 329. 

 Systomus beso, Heckel, t. c. p. 328. 

 Capoeta dillonii, Gunth. Gat. Fish. vii. p. 81 (1868) ; Blanf. Geo!. Zool. Abyssin. 



p. 460 (1870). 

 Barbus beso, Gunth. t. c. p. 148. 

 Capoeta beso, Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1905, p. 291. 



Depth of body 3 to 3-g- times in total lengih, length of head 4 to 5 

 times. Snout broad, swollen, its length 2f to 3^ times in length of 

 head ; eye supero-lateral, its diameter 4 (young) to 6 times in length of 



Pig. 268. 



Varicorhinus beso. 

 Lake Tsana (F. N.). g. 



head ; interorbital region convex, its width 2 to 1\ times in length of 

 head ; mouth wide, its width as great as or a little greater than inter* 



