. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum. Freshwater fishes. 222 ADDENDA, I. Caudal peduncle If times to twice as long as deep. Scales 34-35 '^^^ 21 between lateral line and ventral, 14 round caudal peduncle. Bluish black, darker above than below. Total length 15S milliin. Meelspruit, Trans\aal.—Types in S. African Museum, Cape Town. W' 1"Ik. VaricnrJilmis iJct^s^j/itiVtjJwis. Type (Anu. S. Afr. Mus.). f. 4,/. VARICORHINUS RUWENZORII. CajMiita (Pterdcapocta) riiweiizoiii, Pullogr. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxxiv. 1030, p. 15G, and Mem. .Soc. Zoo!. F
. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum. Freshwater fishes. 222 ADDENDA, I. Caudal peduncle If times to twice as long as deep. Scales 34-35 '^^^ 21 between lateral line and ventral, 14 round caudal peduncle. Bluish black, darker above than below. Total length 15S milliin. Meelspruit, Trans\aal.—Types in S. African Museum, Cape Town. W' 1"Ik. VaricnrJilmis iJct^s^j/itiVtjJwis. Type (Anu. S. Afr. Mus.). f. 4,/. VARICORHINUS RUWENZORII. CajMiita (Pterdcapocta) riiweiizoiii, Pullogr. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xxxiv. 1030, p. 15G, and Mem. .Soc. Zoo!. France, xxii. IDIU, p. 281, pi. xiv. fi^r. 1. Depth of body 4 to A^ times in total length, length of heal of to 4 times. Snout rounded, ^ length of head ; eye 4 to 4j times in lengtli of head, 1^ times in iuterorbital width ; mouth feebly curved, its width ^ length of head ; a minute barbel at angle of mouth. Dorsal III 11), a little nearer root of caudal than end of snout; last simple ray slender, flexible, nearly as long as head; border of fiu slightly emarginate. Anal III -3, not reaching caudal. Pectoral f length of liead, not reaching ventral, which is inserted below anterior branched rays of dorsal. Caudal deeply forked. Caudal peduncle H to 2 times as long as deep. Scales 39-40 'io~' ^^ between lateral line and root of ventral, 12 round caudal peduncle, sides; caudal greyish, other fuis yellow. Total length 94 niillim. Wimi R., Southern slope of Mt. Museum. Olive-brown, silvery on the Ruwcnzori.—Types iu I'.iris. 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 Boulenger, George Albert, 1858-1937; British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology. Lond.
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