GALAXIAS. 



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length of head ; jaws equal in front; mouth extending to below anterior 

 border or anterior fourth of eye ; teeth small, subequal. Gill-rakers 

 short, 8 on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal III-IV 7-8, originating 

 at nearly equal distance from occiput and from base of caudal. Anal 

 III-IV 7-8, originating below middle of dorsal. Pectoral ^ to 5 length 

 of head, or distance from its base to ventral. Latter G-rayed, equally 

 distant from end of snout and from base of caudal. Caudal rounded- 

 subtruncate, continued anteriorly on caudal peduncle. Latter twice as 



FiK. 8. 



G'ala.vias zehratas. 

 Cape Town. 



long as deep. Greyish or brownish, minutely speckled with darker and 

 with numerous more ox less regular dark (purplish) bars on the back 

 and sides. 



Total length 55 millim. 



Cape of Good Hope, in fresh-water streams on the coast near Cape 

 Town. — Types lost. 



1. Ad. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith (P.) *. 



2-5. Ad. & hgr. Near Cape Town. Prof. M. Weber (P.) 



2. GALAXIAS PUNCTIFER. 



Colitis pundijer, Casteln. Mem. Poiss. Afr. Austr. p. 50 (1861). 

 Galaxias piindifer, Bouleng. Ann. & Mng. N. H. (7) xvi. 1905, p. 51 ; Regan, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, ii. p. 3G7, pi. x. fig. 3. 



Barely distinguishable from the preceding by the rather more slender 

 habit, the caudal peduncle being 2 J times as long as deep, and the shape 

 of the caudal fin, which is truncate and slightly emarginate. The dark 

 bars on the body are absent or confined to the back. 



Total length 52 millim. 



Occurs with the preceding near Cape Town. — Types lost. 



1-2. Ad. Flats near Cape Town. S. African Museum (P.)* 



3-12. Yg. Durban Road near Cape Town. Mr. C. Grant (C.) r 



C. D. Rudd, Esq. (P.). 



* This specimen, received in 1852 as from the Cape of Good Hope, had been referred 

 by Gunther (Cat. Tisli, vi. p. 210) to Galaxias fasciaUis, Gray, from New Zealand and 

 nei;:hbourinr^ islands. 



