CYPRINIDJE. 



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dorsal. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. Scales longi- 

 tudinally striated, 40 g, 3 between lateral line and ventral, 16 round 

 caudal peduncle. Greyish brown above, light yellow below. 



Total length 345 millim. 



Kimberley Reservoir, Cape Colony. — Type in S. African Museum, 

 Cape Town. 



Apparently allied to B. marequensis, but ventrals more posterior in 

 position and scales smaller. 



Fisr. 142. 



Barhus Icimberleyensls. 

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



15 b. BARBUS MENTALIS. 



Gilchrist &, Thompson, t. c. p. 384, fig. 



Depth of body nearly 4 times in total length, length of head 3f 



times. Snout rounded, about ^ length of head ; eye 5f times in length 



of head, interoibital width nearly 3 times ; mouth terminal, width 3^,- 



times in length of head ; lips very thick, lower extending across chin, 



both lips produced into median lobes, that on upper triangular and 



low and the one on lower rounded and about f diameter of eye ; two 



barbels on each side, posterior a little longer than anterior and nearly 



1J times diameter of eye. Dorsal IV 8, a little nearer to occiput than 



to root of caudal, border almost straight ; last simple ray moderately 



enlarged, bony, slightly curved, segmented down to its lower third, 



smooth, nearly |- length of head. Anal III 5, reaching caudal. Pectoral 



nearly as long as head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter nearly 



wholly in advance of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If times as long as deep. 



gi 

 Scales lougitudinally striated, 38 ~1, 3 between lateral line and ventral, 



Q 2 



