BABBUS. 



157 



the dorsal scales darker at the base ; a black straight lateral band, 

 from the end of the snout, through the eye, to the base of the caudal ; 

 fins white, dorsal greyish in front. 



Total length 85 millim. 



Liberia, Gold Coast, Old Calabar. — Type in Leyden Museum. 



1-10. Ad. & hgr. Kotchwah R v Gold Coast. R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (P.). 

 Infoan, Gold Coast. 



11-17. Hgr. & yg. 



18-21. Hgr. 

 22-25. Ad. & hgr. 

 26. Ad. 



Akropong, „ 

 Atesu R., „ 

 Ataiyo R. (Old Calabar) at 

 Oban, S. Nigeria, 500 ft. 



R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (C.) ; 

 Dr. A. Giiuther (P.). 



P. A. Talbot, Esq. (P.). 



152. BARBUS DESERTI. 

 Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1909, p. 239. 



Depth of body equal to or a little less than length of head, 3 \ to 4 

 times in total length. Snout rounded, 3 to 3|- times in length of head, 

 equal to interorbital width ; eye 3j to 3£ times in length of head ; 

 mouth small, subinferior ; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each 



Fig. 134. 



Barbus deserti. 

 Type, x 1|. 



side, anterior about £ diameter of eye, posterior f to f . Dorsal III 8, 

 equally distant from centre of eye and from root of caudal, border 

 slightly concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, flexible, as long as head. 

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

 reaching or nearly reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays 

 of dorsal. Caudal peduncle about 1| times as long as deep. Scales 

 radiately striated, 23-25 |t, 2 between lateral line and ventral, 10-12 



