124 



CYPRINID^. 



Total length 380 millim. 

 Cape Colony. 



1. Type, stuffed. 



2. Hgr. 



3. Skel. 



4. Hgr. 

 5-6. Hgr. & yg. 



W. Coast of Cape Colony 

 Burg R., Paarl Division. 



Burg R., near Paarl. 

 Burg R,, Wellington. 



Sir A. Smith (P.). 



South African Museum (E.). 



Dr. J. D. F. Gilchrist (P.). 

 Mr. Seimund (C.) ; 

 Col. Sloggett (P.). 



112. BARBUS SERRIFER. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) vi. 1000, p. 479, Poiss. Bass. Congo, p. 225 

 (1901), and Tr. Zool. Soc. xvi. 1901, p. 145, pi. xiv. fig. 1. 



Depth of body 3 to 3J times in total length, length of head 3J to 4 J 

 times. Snout rounded, nearly as long as or a little longer than eye, 

 which is 3 (young) to 4^ times in length of head ; interorbital width 



Fig. 101. 



Barbus scrrifer. 

 Tvpe(Tr. Z. S. 1901). f. 



2| to 3 times in length of head ; mouth small, terminal, with feebly 

 developed lips ; two pairs of barbels, posterior longer, twice as long as 

 eye in adult (scarcely longer than eye in young). Dorsal III 7, equally 

 distant from eye and from root of caudal, border straight ; last simple 

 ray strong, bony, serrated, a little shorter than head. Anal III o, not 

 reaching caudal. Pectoral } to | length of head, reaching or nearly 

 reaching ventral ; base of latter partly in advance of dorsal. Caudal 

 peduncle 1^ to 1| times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 

 26-30 ^J^y, 2J-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal 

 peduncle. Olive-brown or olive-green above, silvery white beneath ; 



