216 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Genus Puntius Hamilton. 

 1822. Puntius Hamilton, Fishes of the Ganges, p. 388. (Type Cyprinus punlio 

 Hamilton.) 



Body oblong, rather high, slightly compressed. Mouth anterior 

 and oblique, with no labial fold; lower lips continuous, without horny 

 covering. Barbels none. The osseous dorsal spine of moderate 

 strength, smooth or serrated behind, the fin inserted in advance of- 

 or a little behind, the origin of the ventral; anal with five or six divided 

 rays. Scales large, less than thirty in the lateral line. Lateral line 

 continuous, extending along the middle of the tail. Pharyngeal teeth 

 in three series, 5, 3, 2 — 2, 3, 5. 



Distribution: Malay Archipelago; British India. 



Remarks: Dr. Bleeker restricted the present genus to include a 

 group of fishes, the tyi)e of which is Cyp-rinus sophore Hamilton, but 

 the type of the genus Puntius has no barbel, thus being distinguished 

 from C. sophore which has four barbels. 



24. Puntius snyderi sp. nov. (Plate L, Fig. 2). 

 Anbakutai (Formosa). 



Head 3.58 in length; depth 3; D. IV, 9; A. 2, 6; P. 13; V. 9; width 

 of head 1.7 in its length; eye 3 in head; interorbital space 2.66; snout 

 3; pectoral 1.42; ventral 1.42; twenty-four scales in the lateral line, 

 four scales in an oblicjue series between origin of the dorsal and lateral 

 line, four scales between the latter and the middle of belly, three 

 scales between lateral line and the root of the ventral; pharyngeal 

 teeth 5, 3, 2 — 2, 3, 5; gill-rakers i + 4- 



Body oblong, slightly compressed, abdomen rounded; head moder- 

 ate, its top more or less convex, profile on the nape slightly concave; 

 snout rather short, anterior margin obtusely rounded; mouth anterior 

 and oblique, its angle not reaching the orbit; lower jaw slighth- shorter 

 than the upper; lips fleshy; no barbel; nostrils close together, nearer 

 than orbit the tip of snout, the anterior nostril in a short tube; eyes 

 moderate, slightly anterior and superior; pharyngeal teeth sharp and 

 hooked; gili-rakers short, rudimentary. 



Origin of the dorsal midway between tip of snout and base of caudal, 

 slightly behind that of the ventral, first and second spines minute, 

 third s[)ine about one-third as long as the fourth, which is the strongest 

 and is serrated behind; tiie pectoral slender, not reaching the ventral; 

 ventral fin inserted in front of origin of the dorsal; the anal short, 



