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8. Homaloptera lepidogaster n. sp. 



D. 3.7; A. 2.5; P. 6.8 (9).i; V. 2.6.1; L. 1. 61—63. 



Height 6.2, 7.5 in length with caudal. Head 4.1, 5 in 

 length with caudal, its breadth about ^/^ of its length. Eye 6, 

 situated immediately behind middle of head, about twice in 

 the interorbital space. Upper lip and exterior half of lower 

 lip swollen. Barbels subequal, about equal to eye. Origin of 

 dorsal opposite to about the 25 th or 26th perforated scale, some- 

 what before middle between snout and base of caudal, oppo- 

 site to base of inner ray of ventrals, separated by about 40 

 scales from the occiput. Height of dorsal nearly equal to height 

 of body, that of the anal slightly less. Origin of anal in the 

 middle between root of caudal and origin of inner ventral ray. 

 Ventrals not reaching anus, nearly equal to head. Pectorals 

 reaching ventrals or nearly so, their longest rays equal to head. 

 Caudal probably slightly emarginate, nearly equal to head. 

 Posterior half of abdomen and space between ventrals totally 

 scaly. Dark brown, back with 4 — 5 darker patches, one at the 

 origin of dorsal, the others behind dorsal; a blackish band at 

 base of caudal ; dorsal and caudal with an irregular, broad 

 blackish band. Length 60 mm. [Type of the species in the 

 Zoological Museum of Amsterdam]. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Matur, Padangsche Bovenlanden !), col- 

 lected by Mr. Edw. Jacobson. 



9. Homaloptera zollingeri Bleeker. 



Homaloptera Zollingeri Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie IV. 1853, p. 159. 

 Homaloptera J avanica Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. lud. Prodr. II. Cyprini, i860, p. 89. — 



Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 17. 

 Homaloptera zollingeri GLinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 342. 



D. 2.8—9; A. 2.5—6; P. 4.9 (lO).I; V. 2.8; L. 1. ± 45. 



Height 8 — 8 '/a in length with caudal. Head 6 — 6'/3 in 

 length with caudal, its breadth more than i to 1^/3 in its 

 length. Eyes 4^/2 — S^li' situated for the greater part in the 

 posterior half of the head, less than twice their diameter apart. 

 Barbels subequal, shorter^ than eye. Origin of dorsal slightly 

 before origin of ventrals, separated by 15 scales from the occiput. 

 Dorsal acute, not emarginate, higher than body. Anal acute 

 or obtuse, equal tO' height of body or slightly lower. Ventrals 

 not reaching anal, shorter than pectorals. Pectorals not reaching 

 ventrals. Caudal rather deeply emarginate, the lobes acute, 

 the inferior the longer, ^■^[^ to more than 5 in the length. 



