BABBITS. 



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reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal 

 peduncle 1^ to 1^ times as long as deep. Scales finely striated 



Fig. 9. 



Barbus ruspoUi. 

 L. Gandjule. g. 



51-61 



longitudinally, 32-34 -^r 5 , 2J between lateral line and ventral, 12-14 

 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, back greenish. 



Total length 340 millim. 



Lakes Abaia and Gandjule (Margherita). — Type in Genoa Museum. 



l-(i. Ad. L. Gandjule. Mr. P. C. Zaphiro (G) ; 



W. N. McMillan, Esq. (P.). 



9. BARBUS EBLANGEPJ. 

 Bonleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, ii. p. 329, pi. xxix. 



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

 times. Snout rounded or subacuminate, prominent, its length 3 to 3^ 

 times in length of head ; eye 3^ (young) to 5 times in length of head, 

 interorbital width 2^ to 3 times ; mouth inferior, its width 4 to 5 times 

 in length of head ; lips well developed, lower continuous across chin, 

 forming a small, rounded median lobe; two barbels on each side, 

 anterior § diameter of eye in young, 1^ in adult, posterior longer, as 

 long as eye in young, twice as long in adult. Dorsal IV 9, its 

 distance from occiput equal to or a little less than its distance from 

 root of caudal, border feebly concave ; last simple ray very strong, bony, 



