164 



CYPRINIDJE. 



1J to 1 J times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 25-28 p, 2^-3 

 between lateral line and ventral, 10-12 round caudal peduncle. Back 

 brownish, sides and belly silvery, the scales of the lateral line and 

 sometimes the series above it with a dark bar at the base; three round 

 or oval black spots on each side, the first anterior to the vertical of the 

 base of the dorsal fin and above the lateral line, the second just behind 

 the vertical of the dorsal fin and bordered below by the lateral line, the 

 third at the base of the caudal fin and traversed by the lateral line ; 

 fins white, without spots. 



Total length 70 millim. 



Gold Coast ; Liberia. — Types in Leyden Museum. 



1. Ad. Kotchwah R., Gold Coast. R, B. N. Walker, Esq. (P.). 



2-9. Ad. & hgr. Akropon, „ R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (C.) ; 



Dr. A. Giinther (P.). 

 10-17. Ad. & hgr. Infoan, 



160. BARBUS WALKERI. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xiv. 1904, p. 16. 



? Puntius (JBarbodes) camptacanthus (non Bleek.), Sauv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1882, p. 322. 



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

 times. Snout rounded, slightly projecting beyond mouth, not longer 

 than eye ; eye 4 times in length of head, interorbital width 2^ to 2| 



Pig. 142. 



Barbus wallceri. 

 Type. 



times, width of mouth about 3 times ; lips moderately developed, 

 interrupted on the chin; two barbels on each side, anterior 1\ to If, 

 posterior 2 diameters of eye. Dorsal III 8, a little nearer occiput than 

 caudal, border straight; last simple ray flexible, not enlarged, not 



