366 cvrRTN[D.T:. 



2. Acanthopsis dialyzona. 



Acantbopsis dialyzona, Van Hasselt, Alyem. Kon^t- en Letterh. 1823, 

 ii. p. 133 ; Bleek. Cypr. Prodr. p. (57 ; or Atl. Ichthyol. Cyjn: p. 9, 

 tab. 9. fig. 8. 



Cobitis macrorbyncbos, Bleek. Kat. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. vii. p. 96 ; or 

 Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Necrl. ii. Borneo, x. p. 20. 



D. 12. A. 8. V. 7. 



Scales inconspicuous ; snout not twice as long as the remainder 

 of the head. Lower caudal lobe a little longer than the upper. 

 Coloration imiform. 



Java and Borneo. 



a-f. Adult. Java. 



g. Adult. Prona Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



103. BOTIA*. 



Botia, sp., Gray, Zool. Mkc. p. 8. 

 Hymenopbysa, M^Clell. Ind. Cypr. p. 443. 



Body compressed, oblong ; back more or less arched. Eyes with 

 a free circular eyelid ; an erectile bifid suborbital spine. Six bar- 

 bels on the upper jaw, sometimes two others at the mandibulary 

 symphysis. Dorsal fin commencing in advance of the root of the 

 ventrals ; caudal forked. Air-bladder consisting of two divisions : 

 the anterior enclosed in a partly osseous capsule, the posterior free, 

 floating in the abdominal cavity (H. modcsta). 



East Indies. 



1. Botia dario. 



Cobitis dario, Ham. Buck. Fish. Gany. p. 354, pi. 29. fig. 95 ; Bleek. 

 Verh. Bat. Gen. Nederl. Ind. xxv. -Beiiy. 8,- Hind. p. 143. 



geto, Ham. Bitch. I.e. p. 355, pi. II. fig. 96 (yoimg) ; Cuv. 8,- 



Val. xviii. p. 81. 



D. 13. A. 8. V. 9. 

 Barbels eight. The height of the body is equal to the length of 

 the head, and contained thrice and three-fourths in the total (with- 

 out caudal) ; snout rather obtuse, not much longer than the re- 

 mainder of the length of the head. Suborbital spine extending to, 

 or nearly to, below the liind margin of the orbit. Interorbital space 

 broad, about twice as wide as the orbit. Body with seven or eight 

 broad, oblique, brown cross bands, which are of a deeper colour in 

 the young than in the adult, in which they are sometimes divided 

 into two. Each caudal lobe with three oblique brown cross bars. 

 Dorsal and anal without, or with an indistinct, cross band. 

 Bengal and Assam. 



* 1. Botia nebulosa, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beiig. 1860, p. 105. — Darjiling. 



2. histrionica, Blyth, I. c. p. 166. — Tennasserim. 



3. Syncrossus berdmorei, Blyth, I. c. — Tennasserim. — Is this fish a Botia ? 



Blyth says, iu the diagnosis of this genus Syncrosstis, "A forked spine 

 anterior to the eye;" yet he refers to it " Schistura grmidis of 

 M'CIelland," wliich has "two strong prickles beneath each eye." 



