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79 a. BARBUS GUNNINGII. 

 Gilchrist & Thompson, Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xi. 1913, p. 391, fig. 



Depth of body 34- to 3f times in total length, length of head 3| to 

 34, times. Snout obtusely pointed, not projecting beyond mouth, 2£ 

 to 2f times in length of head, eye 5 to 5| times, interorbital width 2-f to 

 3 times ; mouth subinferior, its width 2| to 3 times in length of head ; 

 both lips greatly developed, each more or less strongly produced into an 

 obtusely pointed median lobe ; two barbels on each side, anterior ^ to 4 

 diameter of eye, posterior f to 14, times. Dorsal IV 9, about equally 



Fig. 151. 



Barb us gunningii. 

 Type (Ann. S. Afr. Mus.). §. 



distant from eye and from root of caudal, or a little nearer to the latter, 

 border concave ; last simple ray segmented, moderately enlarged, from 

 To t0 i% length of head. Anal III 5, reaching, or almost reaching, root 

 of caudal. Pectoral § to f length of head, not reaching ventral ; base 

 of latter below middle or anterior third of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 

 l-j% to 1-| times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 

 28-30 -^t 4 , 2-|-3 between lateral line and root of ventral, 12 round 

 caudal peduncle. Dark yellowish brown above, lighter beneath. 



Total length 265 millim. 



Transvaal (Thabina R., Pienaars R., and Pretoria). — Types in 

 S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Near B. zambescnsis and B. lobochilus, but fewer scales in the lateral 

 line. 



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