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CYPEINID^E. 



Total length 380 millira 

 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. 1900, 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 Sh times in total length, length of head 3J to 4^ 



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



which is 3 (young) to i\ times in length of head ; interorbital width 



Barhus serrifer. 

 Type (Tr. Z. 8. 1901). 



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 5, not 

 reaching caudal. Pectoral f to f length of head, reaching or nearly 

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

 peduncle 1J to If times as long as deep. Scales radiately striated, 

 26-30 41131, 2J-3 between lateral line and ventral, 12 round caudal 

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



