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ADDENDA, YOL. T. 



2. VARICORHINUS BRUCII, Blgr. 

 Gilchrist & Thompson, Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xi. 1913, p. 364. 

 Barbus oliphanti, Keilhack, Mitth. Zool. Mus. Berl. v. 1910, p. 101. 



Add:— 



2. Ad. Transvaal. Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist (P.). 



2 a. VARICORHINUS ENSIFER. 

 Boulengev, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) vi. 1910, p. 545. 



Depth of body 3| to 4 times in total length, length of head 4^ to 5§ 

 times. Snout rounded, a little broader than long, as long as or a little 

 longer than eye, which is about 3 times in length of head and 1-J to If 

 times in interorbital width ; mouth straight, its width about J length 

 of head, with a thick upper lip covered with round papillae ; similar 



Fig. 134. 



Yaricorliinus ensifer. 

 Type. |, ' 



papilla? behind the cutting-edge of the lower jaw; two barbels on each 

 side, anterior minute, posterior about \ diameter of eye. Males with 

 lar<?e horny spinose tubercles on sides of head and end of snout. Dorsal 

 IV 10 (rarely 9 or 11), equally distant from eye and from caudal; last 

 simple ray very strong, bony, not serrated, straight, \\ to2J times length 

 of head ; border of fin strongly emarginate. Anal III 5, longest ray a 

 little shorter or a little longer than head, sometimes reaching caudal, 

 with nuptial tubercles in the males. Pectoral as long as or a little 

 longer than head, not reaching ventral ; latter inserted below anterior 



