870 CYPRINID.E. 



1. Lepidocephalus macrocMr. 



Cobitis mftcrochir, Sleek. Nat. Tyclschr. Ned. Ind. vii. p. 97. 

 Lepidocephalus macrocliir, Bleek. Cypr, Prodi: p. 70 ; or Atl. lehthyol. 

 Cypr. p. 12, tab. 2. fig. 6. 



D. 9. A. 6. V. 6. 



The height of the body is equal to, or rather more than, the 

 length of the head, which is one-sixth or two-thirteenths of the 

 total (without caudal). The distance between dorsal and caudal is 

 two-ninths of the same length. Eye almost rudinftentary. Colora- 

 tion uniform. 



Java and Sumatra. 



a. Type of the species. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



106. ACANTHOPHTHALMUS. 



Acanthopbthalmus, sp., v. Hasselt, Alyem. Konst- en Letterb. 1823, ii. 



p. 133. 

 Pangio, Myth, Jmirn. As. Soc, Bengal., 1860, p. 169. 

 Acanthophthahnus*, Bleeker, Cypr. Prodr. p. 73. 



Body compressed, elongate. A small, erectile bifid suborbital 

 spine below the eye. Six barbels, viz. two on the extremity of the 

 snout, and the others attached to the maxillaries. Dorsal fin placed 

 far backwards, at some distanco behind the root of the ventrals ; 

 caudal truncate. Air-bladder enclosed in a bony capsule. 



East Indies. 



1. Acanthophthalmus pangia. 



Cobitis pangia. Ham. Bvch. Fish. Gang. p. 355. 



cinnamomea, M^CMl. Ind. Cypr. p. 435, pi. 51. fig. 5 (cop. from 



Buchanan^ s MS. drawings). 

 oblonga, (Kuhl & v. Hass.) Cuv. ^ Val. xviii. p. 76 ; Blcek. Act. 



Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. ii. Sumatra, vi. p. 48. 

 Pangio cinnamomea, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1860, p. 109. 

 Acanthophthalmus javaniens, {v. Hass.) Bleek. Cypr. Prodr. p. 75 ; or 



Ail. lehthyol. Cypr. p. 11, tab. 2. fig. 3. 



D. 8. A. 7. Y. 6-7. 



The length of the head is a little more than one-seventh of the 

 total length (without caudal). Eye almost rudimentary. Caudal 

 fin subtruncate. The distance between dorsal and caudal fins is 

 about one-fourth of the total length (without caudal). Scales con- 

 spicuous. Coloration uniform. 



Bengal; Java; Sumatra. 

 a. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



* Dr. Bleeker is rather inconsistent in choosing tlie nnme of Acanfhojjhfhal- 

 mus for this genus, a name proposed by his countryman Van Ilassolt. The first 

 and (recording to Dr. Bleeker's most recent principles) typical sj-ccies oi Acan- 

 thophthalmus is Cohifis octocirrhus (v. Hass.). Yet lie proposes for the latter 

 tlic generic name LepiJocephalichfhijs, thus getting rid of Blyth's Vungio I 

 adoj)t Acanfhophfhulnms simply becau.se its adoption necessitfltes llie least 

 amount of change in nomenclature. — The air-bladder, the prcsencj of which is 

 denied by Bleeker in tliese and other species, is present. 



