1907.] ON FISHES FROM THE EASTERN TRANSVAAL. 307 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On a small Collection of Fishes made in the Eastern 

 Watershed of the Transvaal bv Capt. G. E. Bruce. 

 Bj a. A. BouLENGEE, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



[Received March 12, 1907.] 

 (Plates XVIII. & XIX., and Text-figures 90, 91.) 



When recently serving in the Transvaal, Capt. G. E. Bruce,. 

 5th Mounted Infantry, was so kind as to respond to an appli- 

 cation I made to him in 1905, to preserve some of the fishes 

 in which he was interested, and which I felt sure would prove 

 of considerable scientific value, so Jittle being known of the 

 piscine fauna of the Transvaal. I have now the pleasure of 

 drawing up a list of the species represented in a small collection 

 made by Capt. Bruce and presented by him to the British 

 Museum. 



The rugged nature and muddy water of the Transvaal rivers,, 

 together with the steep banks overgrown by reeds and rushes, 

 make it very difficult to collect, except by fishing with fly or bait,, 

 and the ]aws against netting and dynamite aie very strict. 

 Further, the size of the collecting- jars at Capt. Bmce's disposal 

 precluded the preserving of large specimens. Notwithstanding 

 these restrictions, the collection contains examples of several 

 species not previously recorded from the Transvaal, and of five 

 which are here described as new. 



Characinidje. 



1. Hydrocyon lineatus Blkr. 



The " Tiger Fish " occurs in the Inkomati and Krokodil Rivers, 

 and appeal's to be plentiful in all the rivers of the East Coast. 

 from the Zambesi to Swaziland. 



2. Alestes imberi Peters. 



New to the Transvaal, where it was found in the Inkomati 

 River at Komati Poort. First described from the Zambesi, it 

 has since been found in Lake Nyasa, in German East Africa, in 

 the Congo, and in Angola. 



3. MiCRALESTES AcuTiDENS Peters. 



Inkomati River at Komati Poort. Not previously known 

 from south of the Zambesi. 



Cyprinidje. 



4. Barbus rapax Stdr. 



Three specimens from Groot Olifant River agree well with 

 Steindachner's description and figure of a specimen from the- 



