BARBUS (CHEILOBARBUS) MAREQUENSIS — Smith. 
Pisces. — Plate X. Fig. 2. 
B capite supra castaneo, aurantio-tincto ; dorso lateribusque brunneo-flavis, priore oli vaceo-brunnco- 
obscurato; latcribus infra lineam lateralem, abdomineque flavis griseo-flavo-umbratis ; cirns earners; 
oculis flavis. 
Longitddo ab nasi apice ad extremitatem pinnae caudalis, 1 5 unc. 
Colour.— The upper parts of the head chesnut-brown, brightened with a 
shade of reddish orange ; back and sides above the lateral line honey-yellow, 
obscured and deepened on the back with olive-brown ; below the lateral line 
gamboge-yellow, obscured with a faint tinge of saffron-yellow. The sides ot 
the head primrose-yellow, freely shaded with light lemon-yellow and pale 
aurora-red. Lips and cirri light flesh-red. • Pectoral and caudal fins light 
strawy-ellow, shaded with dull wood-brown, the other fins inter me iae 
between flesh-red and sienna-yellow, and shaded with light olive-brown, e 
rays in all the fins lightest. Eyes lemon-yellow, shaded with rede is i 
Form, &c.— Figure subovate and elongated ; the dorsal outline rather more 
curved than the abdominal, the curvature strongest between nose and hinder 
edo-e of base of dorsal fin, behind that the line is straight and slightly oblique 
the abdominal curve terminates at hinder edge of anal fin. Head short ant 
somewhat wedge-shaped, the transverse edge of the snout forming the thin 
edo-e of the wedge ; nostrils close to anterior and upper edge of orbit, the open- 
ings placed obliquely, the one in front of the other, the hindermost largest ; 
intermaxillary lips full and pulpy; cirri about five lines in length; operculum 
lirge- suboperculum suboval; interoperculum semilunar; humeral plate large, 
rounded posteriorly, and prolonged backwards beyond base of pectoral fin. 
Lateral line towards the head slightly deflexed, nearly straight from opposite 
commencement of anal fin, it consists of a series of interrupted tubes, one on 
each scale. Scales very large, irregularly five-sided, the hinder side semi- 
