﻿3- Luciosoma spilopleura Blkr. 



Liiciosoma spiloplmra Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie IX. 1855, p. 265. — 

 Ichth. Arch. Ind. Piodr. II. Cyprini, i860, p. 415. — Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 132. 



Luciosoma spilopleura Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 199. 



Luciosoma Pellegrinii Popta, Notes Leyden Mus. XXV. 1895, p. 178. — Ibid. 

 XXVII. 1906, p. 169. 



D. 2.7; A. 3.6—8; P. 1. 14— 15; V. 2.8; L. 1.41—42; 



L. tr. I . 



Height 4'/4 — 4^4, head 472 — 5- Eye 4 — 4^/2, \^\^ to almost 

 2 in interorbital space, more than once to i '/s in snout. 

 Maxillary reaching below eye. Rostral barbels 3 — 8 times dia- 

 meter of eye, maxillary ones i^^ — 2^/^,. Origin of dorsal above 

 20th scale of lateral line, separated by 21 scales from occiput. 

 Dorsal somewhat oblique, its height 5^/,j — 7 in length, its 

 gthj 7th or 8th ray situated above the origin of the anal. Anal 

 concave, its height 6 — 7 in length, its origin opposite to 

 22nd — 24th scale of lateral line. Ventrals with the inner simple 

 ray produced, 2^^ — 3"/, in length, their origin separated by 

 i'/2 — 2 scales from 12th — 13th scale of lateral line. Pectorals 

 reaching on ventrals, 3^8 — 4V8 ^^ length. Caudal bifurcate, the 

 lobes pointed, the lower lobe much longer than the upper 



4l 

 one. In the first third of the caudal peduncle the L. tr. is^, 



in the third third :j_. Yellowish below, olive above, on the sides 



a straight longitudinal series of blackish brown spots. Four to 

 eight small blackish spots in the lateral line. Fins yellow, 

 dorsal and anal with a blackish brown band. The anterior -/g 

 of the caudal rays blackish brown, especially so on the four 

 short middle rays. Length 265 mm. [Not seen by us]. 



Nom. in dig.: Dalang Ong (Kajan); Penjuar (Malay.). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Lahat); Borneo (river Bo, Tingar, Baram 

 and Kapit [British Museum]). 



Note: Luciosoma pellegrini is said to be different from 

 L. spilopleura by the produced rays of the ventrals and by 

 the smaller head, which differences between Popta's specimens 

 and the specimen of Bleeker we believe are due to age, 



3. Subfam. Cyprininae. 

 Oval or more or less elongate, head and body compressed 



