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Pectorals emarginate behind, subfalciform. Coloration faintly- 

 red, slightly darker on the anterior dorsal part. Two black 

 patches at base of caudal. Head whitish. Fins hyaline. Length 

 of single specimen known 52 mm. [Type of the species in the 

 Leyden Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Borneo (river Kapuas !). 



2. Lepidocephalus macrochir (Blkr.). 



Cobitis macrochir Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VII. 1854, p. 97. 

 Lepidocephalus macrochir Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, i860, 



p. 70. — Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 12. 

 Lepidocephalus macrochir Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 370. 



D. 9; A. 6; P. 9; V. 6. 



Very compressed. Height 672 — 7 ; head 6 — 6'/2) vertex scaly, 

 rostro-frontal profile convex; snout blunt, prominent. Six 

 barbels. The dorsal is situated in the beginning of the last 

 third of the length, at some distance behind the base of the 

 ventrals; its origin opposite to about the iioth scale of lateral 

 line. Pectorals longer than head. Ventrals less than half length 

 of pectorals. Coloration uniform. Length about 90 mm. [Type 

 of the species in the British Museum examined by us]. 



Habitat: Java (Surakarta) ; Sumatra' (Muara Enim). 



In rivers. 



3. Lepidocephalus hasselti (C. V.). [Fig. ii, p. 28]. 



Cobitis octocirrhus van Hasselt, Algem. Konst- en Letterbode 1823, II. p. 133, 



(insufficient description). 

 Cobitis Hasselti Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVIII. 1846, p. 74. 

 Cobitis Hasscltii Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XIII. 1857, p. 365. 

 Lepidocephalus Hasscltii Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, i860, p. 71. 

 Lepidocephalichthys Hasscltii Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 13. 

 Lepidocephalichthys hasscltii Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. 1865 — 1867, p. 366. 



(sine Syn.). 

 Lepidocephalichthys hasscltii Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 364. 

 Lepidocephalichthys Hasscltii Jordan & Scale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXXIII. 



1908, p. 537. 



D. 8; A. 7; P. 8; V. 7; L. 1. about 100. 



Height 6 — 7, head 5-/3 — 6. Eye much shorter than inter- 

 orbital space, shorter than snout, which goes more than thrice in 

 head. 8 barbels, the mandibulary ones, which are much shorter 

 but thicker, sometimes wanting. Origin of dorsal opposite to 

 end of base of ventrals. Pectorals rounded, longer than head. 

 Yellowish brown, with smaller and larger irregular patches. 



