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and caudal, opposite to the last third of ventrals, more than 

 its own length before anal. Ventrals in the middle of the 

 distance between tip of snout and base of caudal. Caudal truncate, 

 equal to head. Scales scarcely visible with the naked eye. 

 Yellowish, marmorated with brown, a dark median lateral line, 

 composed of more or less connected brown spots, the first of 

 which, behind the opercle, is the largest, crossed by about six 

 faint brownish crossbands. Head with three irregular dark bands 

 or patches before and behind eye. Dorsal and caudal with 

 dark points, other fins hyaline. Length 40 mm. [Type in the 

 Zoological Museum of Amsterdam]. 

 Habitat: Borneo (Upper Kapuas !). 



4. Acanthophthalmus kuhli (C. V.). 



Acanthophthalmus fasciatiis Kulil, Alg. Konst- en Lellerbode 1823, II. p. 133 



(no description). 

 Cobitis Kuhlii Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVIII. 1846, p. 77, 

 Cobitis KuhUi Bleeker, Nat. Tijdsclir. Ned. Indie XIII. 1857, p. 364. 

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



p. 74. — Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. II. 

 Acanthophthalmus kuhlii Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 371. 

 Acanthophthalmus kuhli Steindachner, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesellsch. XXV. 



1901, p. 455. 



D. 2.6—7; A. 1.5—6 or 2.5—6; P. 1.8; V. 1.5. 



Compressed. Height 8 — 10 in length with caudal, head 8 — 9 

 in length without caudal. Eye 7 — 10, situated in the anterior 

 half of the head. Convex interorbital space more than one eye 

 diameter. Snout obtuse, convex, prominent. Lips thick, the 

 inferior bilobate. Six nearly equal barbels, thrice or more than 

 thrice shorter than head. Dorsal in the third fourth of the length, 

 its end .slightly before anal. Ventrals in the posterior half of 

 length. Caudal truncate or slightly emarginate, about equal to 

 head. Colour pink, 12 — 15 broad, brown transverse bands, the 

 three anterior ones on the head, narrowing ventrally or nearly 

 bifurcate. Fins pinkish ; basal half of caudal brown. Length 

 80 mm. [Not seen by us]. 



Nomen indig. : Serowot (Sundan.). 



Habitat: Sumatra (river Lamatang) ; Java (Batavia, Buiten- 

 zorg, Tjipanas, Penawangan) ; Borneo (rivers Kapuas, Barani) ; 

 Singapore. — Malacca. 



Indo-austrau.\n fishes III. 3 



