19. BAnBXJs. 117 



72. Barbus bramoides. 



Barbus bramoides, Cuv. ^- Vol. xvi. p. 100. 



wadon, Bleelc. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiii. Oost-Java, p. 14. 



amblycephalus, Bleck. Nat. Tydschr. Keel. Tml. viii. p. 1G6. 



macrophthalmus, Bleek. I. c. ix. p. 404 (young). 



Punti I (B^J'bodes) bramoides, Bleek. Prodr. Cypr. p. 323 ; or 



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

 Punti s 1 C^f^i'^odes) amblycephalus, Bleek. Pi-odr. C'yj»\ p. 324 ; 



or Atl. Ichth. Cypr. p. 94, tab. 3G. fig. 2 (scales not good). 

 Piintius I (^''^rbodes) macrophthalmus, Bleek. Prodr. Cypr. p. 385; 

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



D. 11. A. 8. L. lat. 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 strongly 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. amhlyceplwlus (Blkr.). Borneo. From Dr. Bleeker's 

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

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



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



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

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

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



Barbus hypselonottis, (Kuhl & v. Hass.) Cuv. »fe Yal. xvi. p. 168, 

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

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

 generic name {Systomus, Puntms, Barhodes) ; but, after carefully ex- 

 amining his descriptions (jVat. Tvdschr. Ned. Ind. xiii. p. 349 ; Prodr. 

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

 paring the specimen, I am much inclined to regard this B. hypselo- 

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

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

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

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

 fifth series of scales above the venirals, instead of in the fourth. It 

 is true that the eye ot the specimen named B. macrophthalmus is a 

 little larger, and that the dorsal spine of B. hypselonotus is a little 

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



