Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . r borderof eye and from caudal, upper edge concave, longest ray as long as or alittle longer than head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral a LABEO. 315 little shorter than head, not reaching ventral, which is inserted belowmiddle of dorsal. Caudal deeply notched, crescentic. Caudal peduncleIf to lJj times as long as deep. Scales 40-41 -^p, 4-5 between lateralline and ventral, 18-22 round caudal peduncle. Dark olive-brownabove, whitish beneath. Total length 260 millitn. Limpopo System. 1-4. Types. Kle
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . r borderof eye and from caudal, upper edge concave, longest ray as long as or alittle longer than head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral a LABEO. 315 little shorter than head, not reaching ventral, which is inserted belowmiddle of dorsal. Caudal deeply notched, crescentic. Caudal peduncleIf to lJj times as long as deep. Scales 40-41 -^p, 4-5 between lateralline and ventral, 18-22 round caudal peduncle. Dark olive-brownabove, whitish beneath. Total length 260 millitn. Limpopo System. 1-4. Types. Klein Letaba, tributary of Olifant R., Ad. Dwaars R., Transvaal. Mr. C. Grant (C.) ; 0. D. Rndd, Esq. (P.).Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist (P.). 10. LABEO VELIFER. Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Congo, Zool. i. p. 34, pi. xvi. (1898), and Poiss. Bass. Congo,p. 211 (1901). Body strongly compressed, its depth 2f to 2f times in total 4 to 4f times in total length, nearly as broad as long ; snout broad,rounded; eye perfectly lateral, in middle of head, 4^ to 5 times in length Fur. Labeo (A. M. C). 1 3 of head, 4 to i\ times in interorbital width ; width of mouth, with lips,nearly half length of head; lips with plicae on inner surface, upperentire, lower with papillae forming a fringe; edge of rostral flapdenticulate; no barbel; snout with numerous tubercles. Dorsal HI12-13, equally distant from head and from caudal, very convex, longestrays much longer than head. Anal II 5, extending much beyond root 316 of caudal. Pectoral as long as head, reaching or narrowly separatedfrom ventral, the first ray of which falls below 2nd or 3rd branchedray of dorsal. Caudal notched. Caudal peduncle nearly twice as deepas long. Scales 36-38 ^p|, 4 between lateral line and root of ventral,16 round caudal peduncle. Olive-brown. Total length 420 millim. Congo.—Types in Congo Museum, Tervueren. 1. One of the types. New Antwerp, Upper Congo. Capt. Wilverth (C). 2. Ad. M
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