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ADDENDA, VOL. II. 



reaching caudal. Pectoral f- to -* 6 length of head, not reaching 

 ventral ; base of latter below middle of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If 

 to \\ times as long as deep. Scales longitudinally striated, 28-30^, 

 2 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Dark 

 brown above, yellowish on sides and belly. 



Total length 310 millim. 



Transvaal (Thabina, Dwaars, Magalies, and Pienaars Rivers). — Types 

 in S. African Museum, Cape Town. 



Closely allied to B. fairbairnii, but dorsal with concave edge and 

 scales more numerous. 



Fig. 153. 



Barbus swierstrce. 

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



86 a. BARBUS MAWAMBI. 



Pappenh. in Schubotz, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Z.-Afr. Exped., Zool. iii. p. 241, 

 pi. iv. fig. 1 (1914). 



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

 Snout 3^ times in length of head, eye and interorbital width 3f times; 

 mouth terminal, its width 4f times in length of head ; lips moderately 

 developed, lower widely interrupted on the chin ; two barbels on each 

 side, anterior -f diameter of eye, posterior f. Dorsal III 10, a little 

 nearer occiput than root of caudal, border concave ; last simple ray not 

 enlarged, entirely segmented, over If times length of head. Anal III 5, 

 not reaching caudal. Pectoral a little more than § length of head, not 

 reaching ventral ; latter inserted below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal 



