. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 156 CYPEINID^. posterior a little longer than anterior and about f diameter of eye. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from eye and from caudal, border straight; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral little shorter than head, reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle about 1^ times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 26-27 3?, 2 between lateral line and ventral. Silvery, bac
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). Fishes; Freshwater animals. 156 CYPEINID^. posterior a little longer than anterior and about f diameter of eye. Dorsal III 8, equally distant from eye and from caudal, border straight; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, as long as head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral little shorter than head, reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle about 1^ times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 26-27 3?, 2 between lateral line and ventral. Silvery, back green. Total length 48 millim. Revugo River, Lower Zambesi.—Type in Berlin Museum. 151. BARB US ABLABES. Puntius (Barhodei) ablabes, Bleek. Nat. Verb, Vet. Haarlem, xviii. 1863, no. 2, p. 114, pi. xxiii. fig. 1. Enterom'mspotamogalis, Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soe. (2) xiii. 1867, p. 407. Barhus ahJahes, Steind. Notes Leyd. Mus. xvi. 1894:, p. 79 ; Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xviii. 1906, p. 33. Depth of body 2f to 3 times in total length, length of head 3 J to 4 times. Snout rounded, as long as eye, 3 or 3f times in length of head, interorbital width 2| or 3 times; mouth inferior; lips moderately developed ; two barbels on each side, posterior f to 1 diameter of eye Fig. 133. ^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Boulenger, Albert, 1858-1937. Codicote, Herts. [Eng : Wheldon and Wesley
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