CI'PBINTDjE. 



211 



36 a. LABEO SEEBERI. 



Gilchrist & Thompson, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) viii. 1911, p. 477, and Ann. S. Atr. 

 Mus. xi. 1913, p. 347, fig. 



Depth of body nearly 5 times in total length, length of head 4J 

 times; width of bead nearly f its length. Snout prominent, projecting, 

 rounded and slightly pointed, longer than postocular part of head and 

 2yo- times in length of head ; eye lateral, nearer gill-opening than to 

 end of snout, 7 times in length of head and 3^ times in interorbital 

 width ; width of mouth, with lips, a little more than \ length of head ; 

 lips well developed, with transverse plicae on inner surface, fringed, with 

 papillae, the lower lip with prominent papilla? scattered on it and 



Pig. 133. 



Labeo seeberi. 

 Type (Ann. S. Afr. Mus.). T \. 



festooned on lower edge; rostral flap fringed; no visible barbel. 

 Dorsal IV 9, nearly equidistant from nostril and base of caudal, upper 

 border emarginate ; longest branched ray about f length of head. 

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

 not reaching ventral, which is inserted below 4th branched ray of dorsal. 

 Caudal deeply forked, lower lobe pointed and longer than upper. 

 Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. Scales 83 =^ , 16 between 

 lateral line and root of ventral, about 32 round caudal peduncle. Dark 

 bluish brown above, light-coloured on belly ; body covered with minute 

 dark spots. 



Total length 268 millim. 



Olifants River, Transvaal. — Type in S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Distinguished from all other African species by the very small scales. 



