Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . (P.). 7. DISCOGNATHUS quadrimaculatus, Riipp. Mus. Seckenb. ii. p. 22, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1837).? Gobio hirticeps, Riipp. t. c. p. 23, pi. iii. fig. 4. ? Discognathus hirticeps, Heckel, Russeggers Reise Egypt, iii. p. 329 (1846).Discognalhus quadrimaculatus, Heckel, 1. c. ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, ii. p. 330, and Fish. Nile, p. 186, pi. xxxi. fig. 5 Q907).Barbus quadrimaculatus, Giintli. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 98 (1868).Discognathus chiarinii, Vineig. Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. 1883, p
Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History) . (P.). 7. DISCOGNATHUS quadrimaculatus, Riipp. Mus. Seckenb. ii. p. 22, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1837).? Gobio hirticeps, Riipp. t. c. p. 23, pi. iii. fig. 4. ? Discognathus hirticeps, Heckel, Russeggers Reise Egypt, iii. p. 329 (1846).Discognalhus quadrimaculatus, Heckel, 1. c. ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1903, ii. p. 330, and Fish. Nile, p. 186, pi. xxxi. fig. 5 Q907).Barbus quadrimaculatus, Giintli. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 98 (1868).Discognathus chiarinii, Vineig. Ann. Mus. Genova, xviii. 1883, p. 696, fig., and xxix. 1898, p. quadrimaculatus, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) x. 1902, p. 422. Body feebly compressed, ils depth equal to or a little less than lengthof head, which is contained 4 to 5 times in total length. Head slightlydepressed, 1^ to If times as long as broad, with rounded snout andnearly flat interorbital region ; eye supero-lateral, in middle of length ofhead, its diameter 4 (young) to 6 times in length of head, If to 2\ times Fig. Discognathus Tsana (F. N.). f in interorbital width ; width of mouth nearly | length of head; upperlip well developed, bordered by papillae forming a fringe; lower lipusually confined to the sides, the mental disk merely indicated by aswelling of the integument; this disk, which may be very indistinct, notbroader than long, without or with a very feeble free border; 2 barbelson each side, measuring \ to f diameter of eye. Dorsal II—III 7,equally distant from centre or posterior border of eye and from caudal;longest ray a little shorter than head. Anal II 5. Pectoral as long as 352 CYPKINIM. or a little shorter than head, widely separated from ventral, which issituated below posterior half of dorsal. Caudal deeply peduncle about 1^ times as long as deep. Scales 37-42 kEst, 3-4between lateral line and root of ventral, 16-18 round caudal or olive, some
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