BAKBUS. 



15? 



feebly radiating striae *, 29-31 -tr- 2 , 2|-3 between lateral line and 



ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Dark green or olive above, yellowish 



beneath ; fins pale green. 



Fig. 129. 



Barbus inermis. 

 Type, after Peters (Beise Mossamb.). 



Total length 100 millim. 

 Lower Zambesi and Limpopo Systems. 

 1-3. Ad. & hgr. Groot Olifant R., Transvaal. 



Major G. E. Bruce (P.). 



147. BARBUS QITADRIPUNCTATUS. 



Barbus trimaculatus (non Peters\ Pieff. Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. x. 2, 1893, p. 37. 

 Barbus quadripunctatus, Pfeff. Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 64 (1896), 



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

 Snout rounded, shorter than eye, which is 2| times in length of head 

 (young X) ; interorbital width 2 J times in length of head; mouth small, 

 inferior ; lips moderate ; two barbels on each side, anterior a little shorter 

 than posterior, which measures about ^ diameter of eye. Dorsal III 8, 

 equally distant from eye and from caudal, border slightly concave ; last 

 simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, a little shorter than head. 

 Anal II 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral § length of head, not reaching 

 ventral ; base of latter below middle of dorsal . Caudal peduncle nearly 

 twice as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 27-30 jf, 3 between 

 lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, back 

 brownish ; three or four small round blackish spots on each side, the 

 last at base of caudal. 



Total length 35 millim. 



Eufu River (Kingani), German East Africa. — Types (probably young), 

 in Hamburg Museum, examined. 



* In this respect the scales of this species may be said to establish a liuk between the 

 two divisions of the genus adopted in the present arraugement. 



