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CTPfilNID^. 



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

 strongly serrated, the serrated part f to f length of head. Anal III 5, 

 not reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, reaching 

 ventral or not quite so far; base of latter below anterior half of dorsal. 

 Caudal peduncle If to If times as long as deep. Scales 28-30 ^r 3 ' 

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



Fig. 114. 



Barbus wellmani. 

 Type. 



above ; a blackish lateral band, more or less indistinct, or broken up 

 into spots, in front. 



Total length 80 millitn. 



Angola. 

 1-6. Types. Interior of Benguella, 4000-5000 ft. Dr. F. C. Wellman (P.). 



130. BARBUS KESSLERI, 

 Puntius kessleri, Steind. Verh. zool.-bot. Gres. Wien, xvi. 1866, p. 768, pi. xiv. 



Barbus caudimacula, Gunth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 107 (1868). 



Barbus kessleri, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xiv. 1904, p. 218. 



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

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

 which is 3 to 3^ times in length of head ; interorbital width 2-^ to 2f 

 times in length of head ; mouth subinferior, its width about 3 times 

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

 anterior nearly as long as eye, posterior 1^ to 1£ diameters of eye. 

 Dorsal III 7-8, equally distant from centre or posterior border of eye 

 and from root of caudal, boi'der straight ; last simple ray strong, bony, 

 strongly serrated, the serrated part -?- to f length of head. Anal III 5, 



