BARBUS (PSEUDOBARBUS*) BURCHELLI.—Smith. 
Pisces. — Plate XI. No, 1. 
B. supra olivaceo-brunneus ; lateribus suboupreis ; partibus inferioribus argenteo -albis ; pinnis pectoralibus, 
ventralibus, analique ad basin coccineis; cirris quatuor; linea lateral! deflexa. 
Longitudo ab apice nasi ad extremitatem pinnae caudalis, 4 unc. 
Boo ye vlerk Carper of the Cape colonists. 
Colour, &c. — Back olive brown, with a metallic lustre ; sides between 
coppery and golden yellow, finely freckled with minute liver-brown dots ; 
belly and under parts silvery white. The fins pale yellow, the base of the 
pectorals, ventrals, and anal scarlet red. Eyes whitish yellow. 
Form, &c. — Figure subovate, prolonged ; dorsal outline slightly arched, 
abdominal outline anteriorly more curved than the dorsal, posteriorly, like 
dorsal, nearly straight. Head not quite one-fourth of the length of the fish, 
its depth four-fifths of its length, the upper surface slightly arched ; gape 
moderate ; lips very thin ; cirri four, two from the snout, and one from 
each angle of the mouth, nostrils situated close to the upper and anterior 
edge of orbits, the posterior opening the largest ; sub-operculum rather 
broad, interoperculum triangular, the apex, which points backwards and 
downwards semicircular ; humeral plate triangular. The lateral line is 
slightly deflexed, and consists of a series of slender horizontal tubes, 
one to each scale. Scales rather small, those towards abdomen largest, 
the posterior edge of each semicircular, and its external surface towards 
hinder margin rough from being marked with a number of fine, close-set, and 
radiating striae. The dorsal fin is situated nearly midway between the snout 
and base of caudal fin, its base anteriorly directly over base of pectoral fins. 
The first and second rays of the dorsal and anal fins slender and hard, the 
* Ch. subgen. PseudolarK. — Mouth opening forwards ; lips thin and cartilagenous; intermaxillary 
bones extensible ; nostrils double ; four cirri, two from upper lip and one from each angle of mouth ; lateral 
line consists of a series of slender tubes ; dorsal fin short and commencing nearly directly over base of 
ventral fins; intestinal canal long and contorted. 
