44 



CYPRUS' IBM. 



reaching caudal. Pectoral | length of head, not reaching ventral ; base 

 of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle \h to If 

 times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 27-30 ^1, 2^-3 



Kg. 24. 







^^feiiSi^ 



Barbus btttcsii. 

 Type (P. Z.S. 1903). £. 



ffe£& 1> ' 



between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brown 

 above, scales darker at the base, yellowish or white beneath ; tins 

 greyish. 



Total length 340 millim. 



Kribi River, South Cameroon ; Ogowe, 



1. Type. 



2-7. Ad., hgr., & yg. 



Kribi R. 



G. L. Bates, Esq. (C). 



24. BARBUS EUMYSTUS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xvii. 1906, p. 565, and Fish. Nile, p. 215, 

 pi. xxsviii. fig. 1 (1007). 



Depth of body equal to length of head, nearly 4 times in total length. 

 Snout rounded, 3 times in length of head ; eye 5 times in length of 

 head, interorbital width a little over 3 times ; mouth inferior, its width 

 4i| times in length of head ; lips well developed, lower continuous 

 across chin and forming a small rounded median lobe ; two barbels on 

 each side, equal, 2^ diameters of eye. Dorsal IV 9, equally distant 

 from praaoperculum and from caudal, border strongly concave ; last 

 simple ray strong, bony, not serrated, straight, % length of head. Anal 

 111 o, nearly reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, not 

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

 peduncle 1|- times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 

 31 |f, 2\ between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle* 



