BARBUS (CHEILOBARBUS*) CAPENSIS.— Smith. 



Pisces. — Plate X. Fig. I. 



B. capite superne dorsoque antice olivaceo-brunneis ; dorso postice lateribusque supra lineam lateralem 

 flavo viridibus ; capitis lateribus corporisque partibus infra, lineam pallide flavis ; squamis postice 

 olivaceo-brunneis marginatis ; labiis, cirrisque carrieis ; oculis flavis; squamis magnis; cirris quatuor 

 duobus e labio superiore et uno ab angulo oris utroque dependentibus ; linea. laterali subdeflexa. 



Longitudo ad extremitatem pinnse caudalis, 16 unc. 6 lin. 



Colour. — The upper parts of the head and the anterior part of the back a 

 tint intermediate between oil-green and deep orange-coloured brown (olive- 

 brown) ; the hinder portion of the back intermediate between oil-green and 

 grass-green, the latter colour predominating towards the back. The sides of 

 the head and of the body below the lateral line light gamboge-yellow tinted 

 with oil-green ; all the scales both above and below the line edged with a tint 

 of the colour of the back, darkest on those above the line. Lips and cirri a 

 dull flesh-colour. Fins pale sienna-yellow shaded with dull yellowish brown, 

 the rays lightest. Eyes kings-yellow shaded with reddish-brown. 



Form, &c. — Head elongated, above rather flattened, snout prominent and 

 somewhat pulpy ; mouth opening directly forwards ; gape of moderate extent ; 

 lips full and rather hard ; cirri nearly an inch in length, two on snout, 

 one directly in front of each eye, the other two behind the angles of the 

 mouth. Operculum subquadrangular, the inferio-anterior angle prolonged, 

 the superio-anterior oblique, the hinder side the longest ; the suboper- 

 culum the segment of a circle ; the interoperculum triangular, its apex 

 rounded. Dorsal outline, between hind-head and posterior edge of dorsal 

 fin slightly arched, behind dorsal fin nearly straight ; abdominal outline from 

 branchial rays to hinder edge of anal fin slightly arched, behind the latter 

 nearly straight. Lateral line anteriorly slightly deflexed, from over base of 



* Ch. Subgen. Cheilobarbi. — Mouth opening forwards ; lips full, and firm ; intermaxillary bones slightly 

 extensible; nostrils double; four cirri, two from snout, and one from each angle of mouth; lateral line 

 consisting of a series of small tubes ; scales large ; dorsal fin short, and commencing slightly in front of 

 base of ventral fins ; commencement of anal fin about midway between ventral and caudal fins. 



