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Lend. Anal II 5, reaching caudal. Pectoral lyg- times as long as 

 head, falciform, scarcely reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior 

 rajs of dorsal. Caudal peduncle \% times as long as deep. Scales 

 longitudinally striated, 28 |, 1^ between lateral line and ventral, 14 

 round caudal peduncle. Greenish, darker above than below ; all fins 

 except ventral edged with white ; a dark diagonal band on base of each 

 lobe of caudal; scales on upper part of body edged with black. 



Total length 328 millim. 



Crocodile R., Transvaal. — Type in S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Closely allied to JB. victoria'. Barbels longer. 



Barbus coolcii. 

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



84 a. BARBUS SWIERSTRJ3. 



Gilchrist & Thompson, t. c. p. 3l>3, fig. 



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

 4J times. Snout blunt, 2f to 3 times in length of head; eye b\ to 5| 

 times in length of head, interorbital width 2f to 2f times; mouth 

 inferior, its width 2f to 2f times in length of head ; lips moderate, 

 lower with a small mental lobe ; lower jaw rather sharp-edged ; two 

 barbels on each side, subequal or posterior the longer, -| to about as long 

 as eye ; head with minute tubercles. Dorsal IV 9, equally distant from 

 eye and from caudal, border concave ; last simple ray slightly enlarged, 

 segmented down to basal third, nearly as long as head. Anal III 5, 



