English: Title: Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum

Identifier: annalsofsouthafr11sout Year: (s) Authors: South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum Subjects: Natural history Publisher: Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ] Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: 356 Annals of the South African Museum. above, lighter beneath. The specimens from Sabi Eiver have more of a greyish tint and the scales (especially of the smallest) have a bright red spot or bar in the centre, forming longitudinal lines on the body. Fins dark ; in two of the specimens the caudal has a white edge or border on inner margin of lobes. Three specimens, 400 mm., 370 mm., 177 mm. in length respec- tively, from Sabi Eiver, Transvaal; Major J. Stevenson Hamilton. One specimen, 394 mm. in length, from Karino, Crocodile Eiver, Transvaal (A. T. Cooke). This species closely resembles L. coubie, from the Nile, but the dorsal and pectoral fins are smaller and the caudal peduncle deeper ; the colouring also differs. Major J. Stevenson Hamilton writes in connection with the specimens sent by him from Sabi Eiver that the fish clings " with its peculiar rubber-like mouth to rocks, usually at the side of deep and rather swift streams. So far as I know it will take no bait. I have plenty of opportunities of observing its habits from the top of the railway bridge here, and the specimens sent were secured by means of a rifle. I have never known them caught either by white men or natives. The local name is 'sucker,' significant of its habits." 8. LABEO RUDDI, Blgr. Bouleng., Ann. and Mag. N.H. (7), xix., 1907, p. 392, and Cat. Fresh. Fish. Africa, i., p. 314 (1909).

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 25. — Labeo ruddi. . Body strongly compressed ; its depth 3f to 4T\y times in total length excluding caudal, length of head 4^ to 4*- times ; snout rounded, ^ to f length of head ; interorbital width i- length of head ;

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