19. BAEBUS. 1J7 



72. Barbus bramoides. 



Barbus bramoides, Guv. iS;- Val .xvi. p. 1(K). 



wadon, Bh-ek. Verh. Hat. Gen. .x.xiii. 'Oost-Jam, p 14 



anibh-ceijhalus, likck. Nat. Tijdschr. Ked. Ind. ^lii. p 166 



macrophtlialmus, Hhck. I. c. ix. p. 404 (\ouiio-) " 



Svstomiisj .-u V. J ^ 1 ., " 



Puntius f (Barbodes) bramoides, liletk. Prodr. Cypr. p. 323; or 



Atl. Ichth. Cypr. p. 95, tab. 25. fig. 2. 

 Svstomus I ,^T 1 J X , , 

 Puntius \ (-f^arbodes) amblycepbalus, Bleek. Prodr. Cypr. p. 324; 



or Atl. Ichth. Cypr. p. 94, tab. 36. fig. 2 (scales not ffood) 

 ovstomus I .-o , J . o J 



Puntius ( (Barbodes) macrophthalmus, Bhek. Prodr. Cypr. p. 335; 

 or Atl. Ichth. Cypr. p. 99, tab. 35. fig. 1. 



D. 11. A. 8. L. kt. 29. L. transv. 6|/5J. 

 The osseous dorsal ray is strong, its stiff portion "being not much 

 shorter than the head ; it is coarsely serrated ; anterior anal ray 

 osseous There are three longitudinal series of scales between the 

 lateral line and the root of the ventral fin. Body strono-ly com- 

 pressed, elevated, with the profile of the back arched ; its depth is 

 two-fifths of the total length (without caudal), the length of the 

 head one-fifth ; snout very short and obtuse, much shorter than the 

 eye which is one-third of the length of the head ; barbels about 

 as long as the eye. The origin of the dorsal fin is somewhat be- 

 hind the vertical from that of the ventraLs, and a little nearer to 

 the root of the caudal than to the end of the snout. Coloration 

 uniform. 



Java and Borneo. 



a. Type of B. amUncepliahis (Blkr.). Borneo. From Dr. Bleeker's 

 Collection. This specimen has twenty-nine scales in the lateral 

 line, and not thirty-five as stated bv Dr. Bleeker. 

 h. Adult. Java. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 

 c. Young. Java. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. One of the types 

 of B. macrojjhthalnms. The anterior anal ray is osseous and 

 strong, a peculiarity omitted in the drawing given by Bleeker. 

 Barbus hypsehnotus, (Kuhl & v. Hass.) Cuv. & Val. xvi. p. 168, 

 cannot be recognized. Bleeker, indeed, describes and figures two 

 small specimens under the same name, varying at various times the 

 geiienc name {.Sy.->to7nus, Pinifius, Barlodes): but, after carefullv ex- 

 amining his descriptions (Xat. Tvdschr. Ned. Tiid. xiii. p. 349 ; Prodr 

 Cypr. p. 334 ; Atl. Ichthyol. Cypr. p. 98, tab. 34. fig. 3) and com- 

 panng the specimen, I am much inclined to regard this B. ln)psdo- 

 nottis as founded on young examples of B. branwuhs, or at least of 

 a species most closely aUied to it. The barbels are of the same 

 length, the scales are in numbers nearlv identical, the lateral line 

 being erroneously traced in the figure given bv Bleeker, viz. in the 

 hfth series of scales above the ventrals, instead' of in the fourth. It 

 IS true that the eye of the specimen named B. macroi,hthahnus is a 

 liftle larg.T, and that the dorsal spine of B. hypselonotus is a little 

 less strong; but these are not characters on which to found .species, 



