340 CYPEINID-E. 



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

 feebly developed, with rounded or conical papillse 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 -£ to f length of head, not reaching ventral, which is below 

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



13-— 1*}— 



peduncle 1J to 2 times as long as deep. Scales 58-65 1 gf_i(jL 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 River System and Rivers of Southern Watez-shed of Cape 

 Colony. 



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



2. Hgr. Gamka R. at Prince Albert, Cape „ 



Colony. 

 3-4. Hgr. Great Fish R., Cradok Division, S. African Museum. 



Cape Colony. 

 5-6. Ad.& hgr. Vredefort Road, Orange River Capt. Barrett Hamilton (P.). 



Colony. 



34. LABEO CAPENSIS. 

 Abrostomus capensis, A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr., Fish. pi. xii. fig. 2 (1841). 

 Labeo tenuirostris, Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, ciii. i. 1894, p. 459, pi. v. fig. 2. 

 Labeo capensis, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii. 1903, p. 362. 



Body strongly compressed, its depth 3§- to 4| times in total length. 

 Head 1 \ to If 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 0^ times in length of head ; 

 interorbital width \ 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 head. 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 long pointed lobes. Caudal peduncle 



