CTPEIXID.fi. 



229 



Total length 20G millim. 



M'Fongosi, Zululand. — Type in S. African Museum, Cape Town. 

 Apparently allied to B. marequensis, but last simple ray of dorsal 

 stronger and scales smaller. 



IV. 144. 





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Barbus mfonr/osi. 

 Type (Anil. S. Afr. Mus.). £. 



18. BARBUS OREAS, Blgr. 

 Pietschmann, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. lxvi. 1913, p. 189. 



20a. BARBUS SOMERENI. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) viii. 1911, p. 309. 



Depth of body of times in total length, length of head A\ times. 

 Snout rounded, 3 times in length of head; eye 5 times in length of 

 head, interorbital width 2§ times; mouth subinferior, its width 2| times 

 in length of head ; lips moderately developed, lower continuous across 

 the chin ; two barbels on each side, anterior 1^, posterior 1^ diameters 

 of eye. Dorsal III 10, equally distant from occiput and from root of 

 caudal, border straight ; last simple ray strong, bony, not serrated, 

 shorter than head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral f length 

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

 Caudal peduncle 1§ times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally 

 striated, 33 gr, 3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal 

 peduncle. Brownish above, whitish below. 



Total length 205 millim. 



