FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 811 



those of lateral line dark brown band about half scale in width. Iris 

 pale. Fins all brownish, lower ones lighter. Barbels pale. 

 Borneo. 



A 792. Silimpopon River, Sibuko Bay, Borneo. October 2, 1909. Length, 3&- 

 252 mm. 3 examples. 



Genus RASBORA Bleeker 



Rasiora Bleekek, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-N^erl., (Prodr. Cyprini), vol. 7, p. 435, 

 1860. (Type, Levciscus cephalotaenia Bleeker, designated by Bleeker, Atlas 

 Icbth. Ind. N^erlaud., vol. 3, p. 28, 1863.) 



Megarashora Gtjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, p. 198, 1868. (Type, 

 Cyprinus elanga Buchanan-Hamilton, monotypie.) 



Body elongate. Mouth small, oblique, with prominent lower jaw 

 and knob at symphysis fitting more or less into evident notch in 

 upper jaw. No barbels. Gill membranes connected with isthmus 

 opposite pupil, gill opening extending below preopercle. Pseudo- 

 branchiae present. Pharyngeal teeth in 3 rows, 1 or 2, 2 to 4, 4 or 

 5-5 or 4, 4 to 2, 2 or 1. Scales moderate or large. Lateral line 

 bends abruptly down and when complete extends along lower half 

 of tail. Dorsal with 7 or 8 branched rays, inserted between ventral 

 and anal origins. Anal short, with 5 branched rays. 



Eastern and southern Asia, the East Indies to Sumbawa and the 

 Philippines. One species African. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Lateral line complete, reaches anal. 



6\ Scales 7 between lateral lines over middle of caudal peduncle; scales 26 

 in lateral line ; 12 predorsal scales. 



c\ Caudal lobes with black subterminal band trilineata, 



<f. Caudal lobes uniformly pale ; black blotch close above anal origin. 



lateristriata 

 6'. Scales 9 between lateral lines over middle of caudal peduncle. 



<i\ Scales 26 in lateral line, predorsal 10 punctulata 



d^. Scales 28 to 32 in lateral line, predorsal 12 or 13. 

 e\ Maxillary not reaching eye ; dorsal origin midway between snout 



tip and caudal base argyrotaenia 



e*. Maxillary reaches eye ; dorsal origin nearer caudal base than snout 



tip philippina 



o'. Lateral line incomplete, not extending beyond anal taytayensis 



RASBORA TRILINEATA Steindachner 

 FiGUBE 29 



Rasiora trilineata Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 

 vol. 61, p. 637, pi. 3, fig. 3, 1870 (type locality: Jahore ; Pengulon Patie).— 

 DtJNCKEE, Mitt Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, p. 181, 1904 (Kuala Lum- 

 pur Pahig). — Webeb and B?:aufort, Durch Zentral Sumatra, Maas, vol. 2, 

 Fische, p. 529, 1912; Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 3, p. 67, 1916 

 (Sumatra, Borneo).— Fowler, List Fish. Malaya, p. 58(252), 1938 (refer- 

 ence). 



