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CYPEIMDjE. 



138. BARBUS BUROHELLl. 



Barbus (P seudobarbus) burchelli, A. Smith, 111. Zool. S. A£i\, Fish. pi. xi. fig. 1 



(1840). 

 JBarbus burchelli, M. Weber, Zool. Jahrb., Syst. x. 1897, p. 153. 



Depth of body 4 to A\ times in total length, length of head 3^ times. 

 Snout rounded, 3^ times in length of head ; eye 4 to 5 times in length 

 of head ; interorbital width 2f to 3 times ; mouth inferior ; lips 

 moderate ; two barbels on each side, anterior § to 1 diameter of eye, 

 posterior 1 to 1\. Dorsal III 7, equally distant from occiput or eye and 

 from caudal, border convex ; last simple ray not enlarged, not serrated, 



Fig. 122. 



Barbus burclielli. 

 Stellenbosch. 



f to § length of head. Anal III 5, not reaching caudal. Pectoral 

 | length of head, not reaching ventral ; base of latter below anterior 

 rays of dorsal. Caudal peduncle If times as long as deep. Scales 

 radiately striated, 34-38 -^r 2 . 4 between lateral line and ventral, 12 

 round caudal peduncle. Brown above, whitish beneath, some of the 

 scales darker in the centre ; an indistinct dark lateral stripe. 



Total length 105 millim. 



Cape Colony. 

 1-3. AJ. Stellenbosch, Eerste R. S. African Museum (P.). 



4. Yg. Deeltontein. Mr. Seimund (0.) ; 



Col. Sloggett (P.). 



