BARBUS (CHEILOBARBUS*) CAPENSIS.— Smith. 
Pisces. — Plate X. Fig. 1. 
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 carneis ; oculis flavis ; squamis magnis ; cirris quatuor 
duobus e labio superiore et uno ab angulo oris utroque dependentibus ; linea laterali subdeflexa. 
Loncituiio ad extremitatem pinnae 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 ol 
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 ot 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 
tensible • 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. 
