120 CYPKINIDJE. 



107. BARBUS THIKENSIS. 

 Bonleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, i. p. 63, pi. vii. fig. 2. 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 3J to of times in total length. 

 Snout rounded, as long as eye, which is 3 J to 4 times in length of head ; 

 interorbital width 2\ to 2-| times in length of head ; mouth small, 



Fig. 96. 



Burbus thikensis. 

 Type (P. Z. S. 1905). 



terminal ; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each side, anterior f 

 diameter of eye, posterior a little shorter than eye. Dorsal III 7, 

 equally distant from eye and from root of caudal, border straight or 

 slightly convex ; last simple ray bony, strongly serrated, about f length 

 of head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral f to | length of 

 head, not reaching or nearly reaching ventral ; base of latter partly in 

 front of and partly beneath dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice as long as 

 deep. Scales radiately striated, 33-35 ^-, 3-o| between lateral line 

 and ventral, 12-14 round caudal peduncle. Brownish, with a more or 

 less distinct dark streak along the middle of the side ; lateral line 

 often blackish ; fins grey ; a blackish spot sometimes present at base 

 of anal. 



Total length 55 millim. 



Thika R. (Tana System), East Africa; Lake Victoria. 



3-30. Types. Thika R., 3000 ft. S. L. Hinde, Esq. (P.). 



31. Ad. Kisumu Bay, L. Victoria. A. Blarney Percival, Esq. (P.). 



108. BARBUS PLEUROGRAMMA. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 436, and Fish. Nile, p. 242, pi. xlvii. 



fig. 1 (1907). 



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

 Snout rounded, shorter than eye, which is 3-j times in length of head ; 

 interorbital width 3 times in length of head ; mouth terminal, its width 

 4 1 timer, in length of head ; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each 



