340 CYPEIXID.E. 



of head ; width of mouth, with lips, about J length of head ; lips rather 

 feebly developed, with rounded or conical papillae forming a fringe ; 

 rostral flap indistinct ; two barbels on each side, anterior very short, 

 posterior shorter than or barely as long as eye. Dorsal III 8-10, 

 equally distant from nostrils or eye and from caudal, emarginate, longest 

 ray a little shorter than head. Anal III 5, not reaching root of caudal. 

 Pectoral f to f length of hcnd, not reaching ventral, w^hich is below 

 middle of dorsal. Caudal forked, with long pointed lobes. Caudal 

 peduncle IJ to 2 times as long as deep. Scales 58-65 i'^Ligm 9-10 

 between lateral line and root of ventral, 30-34 round caudal peduncle. 

 Brown above, yellowish beneath, or yellowish marbled with brown. 



Total length 310 millim. 



Orange liiver System and Rivers of Southern Watershed of Cape 

 Colony. 



1. Hgr. Grobelaars R., Capo Colony. Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist (P.). 



2. Hgr. Gamka K. at Prince Albert, Ca})e „ 



Colony. 

 3-4. Hgr. Great Fisli !{., Cradok Division, 8. African Museum. 



( 'ape Colony. 

 5-G. Ad. v*v. lio;r. Vrodofort l^oad, Oraiino Iviv.T ( iipi. Barrett llainihoii (P.). 



( 'olonv. 



?>L LABKU lAPENSlS. 



Ahrostomus capensis, A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Fish. })!. xii. fig. 2 (1811). 

 Laheo tenuirostris, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, ciii. i. 18'.U, p. loO, pi. v. fig. 2. 

 Laheo capensis, Boulcng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. l*JO;i, p. 362. 



Hody strongly compressed, its depth oj to 4J times in total length. 

 Head 1-h to 1|^ times as long as broad, 4^ to 5 times in total length ; 

 snout rounded, very prominent, as long as or a little longer than post- 

 ocular part of head ; eye lateral, 4 to 6J times in length of head ; 

 intcrorbital width J length of head ; width of mouth, with lips, about ^ 

 length of head ; lips rather feebly developed, with rounded or conical 

 papillae forming a fringe ; rostral flap fringed ; two short barbels on each 

 side, equal, or anterior the longer, as long as or shorter than eye. Dorsal 

 IV 10-11, equally distant from eye and from caudal, emarginate, longest 

 ray as long as or a little shorter than brad. Anal III 5, reaching, or 

 nearly reaching, root of caudal. Pectoral as long as or a little shorter 

 than head, not reaching ventral, which is below middle or posterior half 

 of dorsal. Caudal forked, with k»ng pointed lobes. Caudal pt'iluiicle 



