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CYPRINIDjE. 



177. BARBUS ROGERSI, sp. n. 

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

 Snout rounded, shorier than eye, which is 2§ times in length of head ; 

 interorbital width 3 times in length of head ; mouth very small, inferior ; 



Fig. 158. 



Barbus rogersi. 

 Type, Que R. x U. 



lips moderate; barbels absent or a single minute one on each side. 

 Dorsal III 8, equally distant from anterior border of eye and from 

 caudal, border straight ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, as 

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

 head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. 

 Caudal peduncle 1\ times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 

 27-28 p, 2 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. 

 Silvery, back olive ; a blackish streak from the end of the snout, through 

 the eye, and along the lateral line to the root of the caudal ; dorsal 

 edged with blackish. 



Total length 55 millim. 



Que River, Angola ; Upper Zambesi. 



1. Type. Que R. Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C). 



2. Type. Umsitu R., Broken Hill, Rev. F. A. Rogers and 



N. W. Rhodesia. E. C. Chubb, Esq. (P.). 



178. BARBUS BRAZZ^. 



Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1901, p. 330 (1902), and Bull. Soc. Philom. (9) ix. 

 1907, p. 29, pi. i. fig. 2. 



Depth of body 3 times in total length, length of head 3f times. 

 Snout as long as eye, which is 3 times in length of head and equals 

 interorbital width ; mouth subinferior ; lips moderate ; no barbels. 

 Dorsal III 8, equally distant from anterior border of eye and from 



