BABBITS. 



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nearly reaching ventral. Root of ventral entirely in front of dorsal. 

 Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 44-4b' 

 T^g, 4-5 between lateral line and ventral, 20 round caudal peduncle. 

 Brown above, with darker spots, white beneath. 



Total length 110 millim. ; grows to 180. 



Cape Colony. — Type in Berlin Museum. 

 1. Hgr. Olifants R., Cllanwilliam. South African Museum (E.). 



102. BARBUS PALUD1NOSUS. 



Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1852, p. 683 ; Giinth. Cat. Fish. viii. p. 102 (1,868) ; 



Peters, Reise Mossamb. iv. p. 51, pi. xi. fig. 1 (1868) ; Pfeff. Thierw. O.-Afr., 



Fische, p. 61 (1896); M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 151; 



Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvii. 1905, p. 177. 

 Barbus welwitschii, Giinth. t. c. p. 101. 

 Barbus vinciguerrai , Pfeff. op. cit. p. 62 ; Hilgend. & Pappenh. Sitzb. Ges. 



naturf. Fr. Berl. 1903, p. 270 ; Hilgend. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii. 1905, 



p. 413. 

 Barbus inacroprlslis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xiii. 1904, p. 449, and 



Fish. Nile, p. 241, pi. xlvi. fig. 2 (1907). 

 Barbus macropristis meruensis, Lonnb. Kilim.-Meru Exped., Fish. p. 3 (1907). 



Depth of body 3^ to 4^ times in total length, length of head 3§ to 4 



Pisr. 82. 



Barlms paludinosus. 

 Type, after Peters (Beise Mossamb.). 



times. Snout rounded, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is 

 3J to 4 times in length of head ; interorbital width 2J to 3 times in 

 length of head; mouth terminal or subinferior, its width 3| 1o 4 times 

 in length of head ; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each side, 

 anterior about \, posterior f to 1 diameter of eye. Dorsal III 7 

 (rarely 8), equally distant from eye or occiput and from root of caudal, 



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