. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 206 ADDENDA, VOL. 1. length of head, superolateral, a little nearer to gill-opening than to end of snout, If times in interorbital width; width of mouth, with lips, twice in length of head ; upper lip with feeble denticulation, inner surface with feeble trans-verse plicae ; lower lip with a row of papilla? on upper border, posterior border festooned ; rostral flap detached at sides, feebly denticulated; anterior nostril with a flap; a single bar
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History); Fishes; Freshwater animals. 206 ADDENDA, VOL. 1. length of head, superolateral, a little nearer to gill-opening than to end of snout, If times in interorbital width; width of mouth, with lips, twice in length of head ; upper lip with feeble denticulation, inner surface with feeble trans-verse plicae ; lower lip with a row of papilla? on upper border, posterior border festooned ; rostral flap detached at sides, feebly denticulated; anterior nostril with a flap; a single barbel on each side, -^ diameter of eye, more or less concealed under folds of skin; a deep, curved, transverse depression in front of nostrils, and behind it a line of pearl-like tubercles; a patch of similar tubercles, disposed in two rows of 4 and 2, on end of snout, with a similar patch adjoining on each side. Dorsal III 9, equally distant from nostrils and from root of caudal, border concave ; longest ray slightly longer than head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral f length of head, not Fig. Labeo parvulus. Type (Ann. S. Afr. Mus.). reaching ventral; base of latter below anterior rays of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked, with acutely pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle 1^ times as long as deep. Scales 35 m, 3J between lateral line and ventral, 14 round caudal peduncle. Olive-brown, darker above than below ; a yellowish patch on occiput and an orange blotch on throat and on lower opercular border; a darkish lateral streak in life. Total length 72 millim. Crocodile R., Transvaal.—Type in S. African Museum, Cape Town. 30. LABEO CHARIENSIS, Pellegr. Pellegr. Poiss. Bass. Tchad, p. 87, pi. viii. (1914). Add:— 1-5. Ad. & bgr. Peramie , Gold Coast. Dr. H. G. F. Spurrell (P.).. 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 r
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