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CYPRINIDiE. 



iii the folds at side of mouth ; adult with large bony tubercles on 

 side of snout and below eye. Dorsal IV 10-11, about equally distant 

 from end of snout and from caudal, last simple ray slender, flexible, as 

 long as or a little longer than head ; border of fin emarginate. Anal 

 III 5, reaching, or nearly reaching, root of caudal. Pectoral longer than 



Fig. 269. 



Varicorliinus maroccanus. 

 Type, after Giinther (I. c). -5. 



head, sometimes reaching ventral, which is inserted below middle of 

 dorsal. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle li^ to 2 times as lona; 

 as deep. Scales 43-46 g^mb ^-5 between lateral line and root of 

 ventral, 16 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, whitish beneath. 



Total length 390 millim. 



Morocco. 



Ouni Erbiah, near Mazagan. Mr. F. "YV. Rigger.bacli (C). 



1-2. Hgr. & yg. } 



types. 

 3. Ad. 

 4- Yg., type. 



II. Talmist. 



6. VARICORHINUS TANGANICiE. 

 Capoeta tanyankm, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vi. 1900, p. 478, Poiss. Bass. 



Congo, p. 220 (1901), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xvi. 1901, p. 143, pi. xii. fig. 1. 

 Varicorliinus tanganiew, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvi. 1905, p. 41-5, and 



Tr. Zool. Soc. xvii. 1906, p. 549. 



Depth of body 3f to 4 times in total length, length of head 4-| to 5 

 times. Snout rounded, broader than long, 3^ to 4 times in length of 

 head ; eye perfectly lateral, 2| to 3| times in length of head, 1 : } to nearly 

 2 times in interorbital width ; mouth feebly curved, its width § that 



