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a. Ventvals in the middle between tip of snout and 

 end of caudal or behind it. 



a. Colour uniform A. pangia p. 31. 



/3. Spotted A. shdfordi p. 32. 



b. Ventrals much nearer to tip of snout than to 



end of caudal A. lorentzi p. 32. 



B. Dorsal much less than its own length before anal 

 or last ray even above first anal ray. 



a. 12 — 15 transverse bands on head and body . . A. kichli p. 33. 



b. 3 bands on head only A. borneensis p. 34. 



II. Height 15 or more in total length. 



a. Last dorsal ray above first anal ray A. vermicularh p. 34. 



" b. Dorsal and anal opposite A. angtiillaris p. 35. 



I. Acanthophtalmus pangia (Ham. Buch.). 



Acaitthopthalmus javariicus van Hasselt, Alg. Konst- en Letterbode 1S23, II. 



p. 133. (no description). 

 Cobitis pangia Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes Ganges, i82i, p. 355, p. 394. 

 Cobitis oblonga Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVIII. 1846, p. 76. 

 Cobitis oblonga Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. III. 1858, 6de Bijdrage Visch- 



fauna Sumatra, p. 48. 

 Acanthophthalmus javanictis Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, i860, 



p. 75. — Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. II. 

 Acanthophthalmus pangia Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 370. 

 Acanthophtalmus pangia Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 610. — Fauna 



Brit. Ind. Tish. I. 1889, p. 222. 

 Acanthophthalmus pangia Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) IX. 1890, p. 347. 



D. 2.6; A. 7; P. 1.8—9; V. 6—7. 



Compressed. Height from 

 more than 7 to 11, head nearly <^^'m ''itmsp"^' 



7 — 8. Eye small, covered by " ^•-- ^^Pw 



thick skin, situated in the ante- - 



rior half of the head. Snout very ...^, _ VS^ %- 



prominent, rather pointed. Lips ' 



thick, the lower with two con- /^ ^'<^^ "^\:^^ 



tiguous rounded prolongations. 

 Barbels six, nearly equal, more 

 than thrice in the length of the 

 head. Origin of dorsal in the 



, . . - . 1 ^ ^1 • 1 r Fig- 13- Head and anterior part of body 



begmnmg of the last third Ot ^f Acanthophthalmus pangia (Ham. 

 the distance between opercle Buch.), and lower surface of anterior 



and caudal. Dorsal about in the P"" "^ ^^^^- X ^'/a- 



middle between anal and end of ventrals, its own length before 



