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snout, combined with the jet black spot, of peculiar shape, on the 

 caudal peduncle. 



{jSimus, snub-nosed.) 



PUNTIUS BRAMOIDES (Cnvier and Valenciennes) 



Bartus tramoides Cu\'Ies and Valenciennes, 1842, vol. 16, p. 160 (Java). 

 Puntius (Barbodes) erythropterus Bleekee, 1865 (347), p. 35 (Siam) ; 1865 



(356), p. 176 (Siam). 

 Barbus {Puntius) Iramoides Peters, 1868, p. 272 (Siam). — von Martens, 1876, 



p. 402 (Bangkok). 

 Puntius erythropterus Sauvage, 1881, p. 163 (Siam). 

 Puntius tramoides Sauvage. 1883b, p. 153 (Menam Chao Phya). — Weber and 



DE Beaufort, 1916, vol. 3, p. 195 (Siam). — Fowler, 1934a, p. 125 (Chiengrai, 



Chiengsen) ; 1935b, p. 510 (Old Chiengsen). 



This species of Borneo and Java has long been known from 

 Thailand from collections made by Jagor in 1861, reported on by 

 Peters in 1868. Recently Herre and Myers (1937) have bridged the 

 gap between Borneo and Thailand by reporting the species from two 

 of the Malay States. In Thailand the fish is uncommon and has a 

 rather limited distribution in the lower Menam Chao Phya. The 

 presence of the fish in the Meping drainage was disclosed by a speci- 

 men collected by Deignan in a small pond in the grounds of the 

 leper asylum near Chiengmai; this pond, densely overgrown with 

 aquatic vegetation, is connected with the Meping but is usually shut 

 off by a flood gate; at the annual drainage of the pond in June 1935, 

 a Puntius hramoides 23.5 cm. long was taken. Fowler (1934a) ex- 

 tended the range to the Mekong basin. 



Specimens examined in Thailand have been 15.7 to 22 cm. long, the 

 largest from a pond in Bangkok connected with the Chao Phya River. 

 A length of 30 cm. is recorded for the East Indies. 



Weber and de Beaufort {loo. eit.) credit this species with having 

 three simple and only 5 branched rays in the anal fin. The specimen 

 at hand from Chiengmai shows seven branched anal rays, a larger 

 number than previously noted, but is otherwise in agreement with 

 the published description. Bleeker (301) (1863, vol.' 3, p. 95) gives 

 five and six branched anal rays for the species, and his plate shows 

 six. 



The fish shares with related forms in Thailand the vernacular name 

 of pla tapien khao. 



PUNTIUS SARANA (Hamilton) 



Cyprinus sarana Hamilton, 1822, pp. 307, 388 (India). 



A specimen of Puntius sarana collected by Vernay in the Mewong, 

 Central Thialand, is in the British Museum. It is the only known in- 

 stance of the finding of this fish in that country. The species has a 



