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CYPEINID^. 



posterior a little longer than anterior and about § diameter of eye. 

 Dorsal III 8, equally distant from eye and from caudal, border straight ; 

 last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, as long as head. Anal III 5, 

 not reaching caudal. Pectoral little shorter than head, reaching ventral ; 

 base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle about 

 1^ times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 26-27 p, 2 between 

 lateral line and ventral. Silvery, back green. 



Total length 48 millim. 



Revugo River, Lower Zambesi. — Type in Berlin Museum. 



151. BARBUS ABLABES. 

 Puntius (Barbodes) ablabes, Bleek. Nat. Verh. Vet. Haarlem, xviii. 1863, no. 2, 



p. 114, pi. xxiii. fig. 1. 

 Enteromius potamogalis, Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (2) xiii. 1867, p. 407. 

 Barbus ablabes, Steind. Notes Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 79 ; Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. 



N. H. (7) xviii. 1906, p. 33. 



Depth of body 2f to 3 times in total length, length of head 3J to 4 

 times. Snout rounded, as long as eye, 3 or 3-f times in length of head, 

 interorbital width 2f or 3 times ; mouth inferior ; lips moderately 

 developed ; two barbels on each side, posterior § to 1 diameter of eye 



Pig. 133. 



Barbus ablabes. 

 Kotchwah It. 



and twice as long as anterior. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from centre 

 of eye and from caudal, border feebly concave ; last simple ray not 

 enlarged, as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral 

 f to j length of head, reaching or nearly reaching ventral ; base of latter 

 below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle lj times as long as 



qi 



deep. Scales radiately striated, 22-25 g|, 2-2^ between lateral line and 

 ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Brownish above, whitish beneath, 



