BARBUS. 157 the dorsal scales darker at the base; a black straight lateral band, from the end of the snout, through the eye, to the base of the caudal ; fins white, dorsal greyish in front.
Total length 85 millim.
Liberia, Gold Coast, Old Calabar.—Type in Leyden Museum. 1-10. Ad. & her. Kotchwah R., Gold Coast. R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (P.). 11-17. Hgr.& yg. Infoan, Gold Coast. R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (C.) ; Dr. A. Giinther (P.).
18-21. Her. Akropong, ,, ES 22-25. Ad. & her. Atesu R., ,, i 26. Ad. Ataiyo R. (Old Calabar) at PP. A. Talbot, Esq. (P.). Oban, 8. Nigeria, 500 ft.
152. BARBUS DESERTI.
Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1909, p. 239.
Depth of body equal to or a little less than length of head, 33 to 4 times in total length. Snout rounded, 5 to 3} times in length of head, equal to interorbital width ; eye 34 to 35 times in length of head; mouth small, subinferior; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each Barbus ceserti.
Type. x1.
side, anterior about % diameter of eye, posterior $ to 2. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from centre of eye and from root of caudal, border slightly concave; last simple ray not enlarged, flexible, as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral 2 to ¢ length of head, reaching or nearly reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle about 13 times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 23-20 ap 2 between lateral line and ventral, 10-12
158 CYPRINIDA.
round caudal peduncle. Yellowish, back darker; a blackish spot near the tip of the dorsal.
Total length 60 millim.
Algerian Sahara.—Types in Paris Museum.
1. One of the types. Pool of Ifedil. Capt. Cortier (C.) ; Paris Museum (E.).
153. BARBUS UNITASNIATUS.
Puntius vittatus (non Day), Steind. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi. 1866, p. 767, pl. xvii. fig. 2.
Barbus uniteniatus, Giinth. Zool. Rec. 1866, p. 151, and Cat. Fish. vii. p. 103 (1868) ; M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 151. Depth of body 3 to 3% times in total length, length of head 33 to 4 times. Snout rounded, as long as or shorter than eye, which is 3 to 33 times in length of head; interorbital width 3 times in length of head ; mouth small, subinferior; lips moderate ; two barbels on each side, posterior longer than anterior and as long as or a little longer than eye. Barbus uniteniatus.
Type,afterSteindachner(1.c.).
Dorsal III 8, equally distant from snout or eye and from caudal, border straight or slightly concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, nearly as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching candal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 13 to 2 times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 50-33 eet 23-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. “Brown above, yellowish beneath, with a more or less distinct dark lateral band which may end in a round
BARBUS. 159 black spot at the base of the caudal; a lateral series of small black dots may be present.
Total length 70 millim.
Angola, Transvaal, Zululand, Natal—Type in Vienna Museum. 1-5. Hgr. & yg. Bange Ngola, Angola. Dr. W. J. Ansorge (C.). 6. Ad. Elchelelilwami, Zululand. Dr. E. Warren (P.). 7-13. Her. & yg. Durban, Natal. Col. Bowker (P.). 154. BARBUS LINEOMACULATUS.
Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xi. 1903, p. 53, pl. v. fig. 3; Hilgend. Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii. 1905, p. 415.
Depth of body 33 to 4 times in total length, length of head 4 times. Snout rounded, as long as eye, which is 33 to 4 times in length of head ; interorbital width 24 to 2% times in length of head; mouth small, subinferior ; lips moderately developed; two barbels on each side, anterior 13 to 14 diameters of eye, posterior 14 to 2. Dorsal III 8, nearer occiput than base of caudal, border feebly concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching Barbus lineomaculatus.
Type (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1903).
caudal. Pectoral 2 length of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. Seales radiately striated, 30-32 a 23-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, brownish on the back, some of the scales dark brown at the base; a series of 4 to 7 black spots on each side, connected by a dark lateral streak ; all but the last spot above the lateral line.
Total length 67 millim.
Lumi River, east side of Kilimanjaro, flowing into Lake Jipi, and Bubu River, Masailand, East Africa.
1-2. Types. Lumi R. A, Blayney Percival, Esq. (C.). 3-4 Ad. & yg. Bubu R. near Irangi. Prof. O. Neumann (C.).
160 CYPRINIDA.
155. BARBUS INNOCENS.
Pfeff. Thierw. O.-Afr., Fische, p. 66 (1896); Hilgend. & Pappenh. Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berl. 1903, p. 270.
Depth of body equal or nearly equal to length of head, 4 to 44 times in total length. Snout rounded, shorter than eye, which is 3 to 32 times in length of head; interorbital width 23 to 3 times in length of Fig. 137.
Barbus innocens.
L.Nyassa.
head; mouth small, inferior; lips feebly developed; two barbels on each side, anterior a little shorter than posterior, which measures 1 to 14 diameters of eye. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from anterior border of eye and from caudal, border feebly concave; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral a little shorter than head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice as long A ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, with a more or less distinct darker lateral streak, which often ends in a round blackish spot at the base of the caudal fin.
Total length 80 millim.
Wami and Mkata Rivers, German East Africa; Lake Nyassa; Lake Rukwa.—Types, in Hamburg Museum, examined.
1-3. Ad. Between Kondowe and Karonga, L. Nyassa. Sir H. H. Johnston (P.). 4-11. Ad. Mkata R., German H. Africa. Dr. E. J. Baxter (P.). as deep. Scales radiately striated, 29-33 7, 25 between lateral line and 156. BARBUS HUMILIS.
Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 436, and Fish. Nile, p. 250, pl. xlvii. fig. 4 (1907).
Depth of body 34 to 353 times in total length, length of head 33 to
BARBUS. 161 4 times. Snout rownded, shorter than eye, which is 3 to 33 times in length of head; interorbital width 24 to 22 times in length of head ; mouth small, terminal ; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each side, anterior about $ or 3 diameter of eye, posterior 3 to $. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from anterior border of eye and from caudal, border feebly concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, nearly as long as the head. Anal ILE 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral 3 to 2 length Fig.138.
Barbus humilis.
Type (F. N.). 2.
of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 29-31 i 2 between lateral line and ventral, 12-14 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, brownish on the back; an indistinct darker lateral band; fins whitish.
Total length 56 millim.
Lake Tsana, Abyssinia.
1-10. Types. Bahardar. Mr, E. Degen (C.).
157. BARBUS FASCIOLATUS., Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 108 (1868).
Depth of body 54 times in total length, length of head 3} times. Snout rounded, shorter than eye, which is 3 times in length of head and equals interorbital width; mouth small, subinferior; lips feebly developed ; two barbels on each side, anterior a little shorter than eye, posterior a little longer than eye. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from eye and from caudal, border scarcely coneaye; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral $ length of head, not reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle twice as long as deep. VOL, IE. M
162 CYPRINIDE.
Scales radiately striated, 25 ah 2 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Side with 12 or 13 blackish-blue vertical Fig.139.
Barbus fasciolatus.
Type.
streaks, which do not extend to either the back or the belly; a round blackish spot at the base of the caudal fin; base of anal fin bluish black. Total length 50 millim.
Angola.
1. Type. Fluilla. Dr. Welwitsch (P.). 158. BARBUS CHLOROTAINIA, sp. n. Depth of body 3% to 33 times in total length, length of head 4 to 4} times. Snout rounded, as long as or a little shorter than eye, which is 33 to 3$ times in length of head; interorbital width 24 to 24 times in Barbus chlorotenia.
Type.
length of head; mouth inferior, small; lips moderate; two barbels on each side, anterior a little shorter than posterior, which measures 13 to 12 diameters of eye. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from centre of eye and from caudal, border concave ; last simple ray not at all enlarged, not
BARBUS. 163 serrated, as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral 4 to 2 length of head, not reaching ventral; latter below auterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle 14 to 14 times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 28-30 ii. 24-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle. Silvery, pale olive-green on the back; a dark green (black in spirit) lateral stripe from gill-cover to root of caudal, above the lateral line on the precaudal part of body; fins colourless. Total length 75 millim.
Lagos.
1-6. Types. Odo Omi, head-water of Omi River, Major G. E. Bruce (P.). Lagos.
159. BARBUS TRISPILUS.
Puntius (Barbodes) trispilos, Bleek. Nat. Verh. Vet. Haarlem, xviii. 1863, no. 2, joo JLI13}, jal xeabtio uneay Bhs Barbus trispilus, Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 108 (1868), and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p- 730; Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xviii. 1906, p. 33. Barbus camptacanthus, var. liberiensis, Steind. Notes Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894, p. 80. Depth of body 3 to 32 times in total length, length of head 33 to 4 times. Snout rounded, not longer than eye, which is 34 to 34 times in length of head; interorbital width 24 to 24 times in length of head ; mouth terminal, small; lips moderate; two barbels on each side, anterior 14, posterior 2 diameters of eye. Dorsal III 8, nearer occiput Vig.141, Barbus trispilus, KotchwahR.
than caudal, border straight or very slightly concave ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, as long as or slightly shorter than head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral $ or 3 length of head, not reaching ventral; latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle M2
164 CYPRINTIDA, 13 to 1} times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 25-2 i, 24-3 between lateral line and ventral, 10-12 round caudal peduncle. Back brownish, sides aud belly silvery, the scales of the lateral line and sometimes the series above it with a dark bar at the base; three round or oval black spots on each side, the first anterior to the vertical of the base of the dorsal fin and above the lateral line, the second just behind the vertical of the dorsal fin and bordered below by the lateral line, the third at the base of the caudal fin and traversed by the lateral line ; fins white, without spots.
Total length 70 millim.
Gold Coast ; Liberia.—Types in Leyden Museum.
1. Ad. Kotchwah R., Gold Coast. R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (P.). 2-9. Ad. & hgr. Akropon, ie R. B. N. Walker, Esq. (C.) ; Dr. A. Giinther (P.).
10-17. Ad. & her. Infoan, a 55 160. BARBUS WALKERT.
Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xiv. 1904, p. 16. ? Puntius (Barbodes) camptacanthus (non Bleek.), Sauv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1882, p. 322.
Depth of body 3 to 34 times in total length, length of head 35 to 4 times. Snout rounded, slightly projecting beyond mouth, not longer than eye; eye 4 times in length of head, interorbital width 23 to 2% Fig.142.
Barbus walkeri.
Type.
times, width of mouth about 3 times; lips moderately developed, interrupted on the chin; two barbels on each side, anterior 14 to 132, posterior 2 diameters of eye. Dorsal III 8, a little nearer occiput than caudal, border straight; last simple ray flexible, not enlarged, not