The Freshwater Fishes of South Africa. 



415 



5^- times, interorbital width 4i times ; mouth terminal, its width 3f 

 times in length of head ; lips feebly developed. A single barbel on 

 each side, f diameter of eye. 



Dorsal iii 8 ; equally distant from eye and from root of caudal, 

 border slightly concave ; last simple ray strong, bony, straight, 

 strongly serrated in its upper half, its rigid part f length of head. 

 Anal iii 5 ; not reaching caudal. Pectoral nearly length of head, 



FIG. 72. Barbtis xerrula. V- 



scarcely reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior rays of 

 dorsal. Caudal peduncle li times as long as deep. Scales radiately 



striated, 31 , 2i between lateral line and ventral, 16 round caudal 



*2 "* 



peduncle. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), reddish brown above, silvery on 

 sides and belly. 



One specimen, 116 mm. in length, from Pienaars Eiver, Trans- 

 vaal (C. J. Swierstra). 



44. BABBUS VULNEEATUS, Cast. 



? Barbus gobionoides, Cuv. and Val., Hist. Poiss., xvi., p. 189 

 (1842). 



Gnathendalia vulnerata, Casteln., Mem. Poiss. Air. Austr., 

 p. 57 (1861). 



Barbus multimaculatus, Steindr., Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixi., i., 1870, 

 p. 633, pi. iii., fig. 2. 



