BAGRUS. 



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process long and narrow ; snout not projecting beyond lower jaw, 

 2-|- times as long as eye, which is 8 times in length of head and twice in 

 interocular width. Nasal barbel \ length of head, maxillary -|, outer 

 mandibular ■§ , inner mandibular ^. Dorsal I 9, last ray in front of 

 ventral; spine smooth, moderately strong, not \ length of head. 



Fig. 248. 



Bagrus meridionalis. 

 Type, upper view of head. \. 



Adipose dorsal low, widely separated from rayed dorsal. Anal — 1 

 Ventral much nearer caudal than end of snout. Brown above, white 

 beneath. 



Total length 550 millim. 



Upper Shire River. 



1. Type. Upper Shire. A. Whyte, Esq. (C); 



Sir H. H. Johnston (P.). 



7. BAGRUS UBANGENSIS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. ii. p. 38, pi. xi. fig. 1 (1902). 



Depth of body 7 times in total length, length of head 4 times. Head 

 1^ times as long as broad, smooth above ; snout broadly rounded, 

 subtruncate, about \ length of head ; eye 7 times in length of head, 

 2^ times in interocular width ; occipital process narrow, hardly as long 

 as eye, widely separated from first interneural bone ; mouth § width of 



