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As there is some discrepancy in the description of Bleeker 

 and GiJNTHER of the single known specimen, preserved in 

 the British Museum, we draw attention to the fact that the 

 above description is made after reexamination of the type by us. 



3. Puntius brevis (Blkr.) [Fig. 70, pag. 171]. 



Capoeta brevis Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIII. (1849) 1850, Ichth. Midden- 

 en Oost-Java, p. 21. 



Capoeta javanica Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie IX. 1855, p. 412. 



Systomus (Capoeta) brevis Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, i860, p. 355. 



Systotmts (Capoeta) Iciacanthits Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Podr. II. Cyprini, 

 i860, p. 356. 



Puntius (Capoeta) brevis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 108. 



Puntius (Capoeta) leiacanthus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 109. 



Barbus liacanthics Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 141 (pro parte). 



Barbus brevis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 145. 



lU5) 

 D. 3.8; A. 3.5; P. I. II— 14; V. 1.8—9; L. 1. 23—26; L. tr. i . 



4i(5) 

 Compressed, dorsal profile from snout to dorsal ascending, 

 slightly convex, with a concavity above the nape. Height 

 2.7 — 2.8, head 3.6 to about 4. Eye more or less than 3, about 

 '/s longer than snout and slightly less than the somewhat 

 flattened interorbital space. Mouth nearly terminal, strongly 

 arched, jaws equal. A maxillary barbel at the corner of the 

 mouth, shorter than the eye. Origin of dorsal opposite to 8th 

 scale of lateral line and to that of ventrals, before the middle 

 of a line connecting end of snout and base of caudal, sepa- 

 rated by 9 scales from occiput. Dorsal concave, the third 

 osseous ray of moderate strength and smooth behind, with its 

 flexible portion about equal to length of head. Anal emarginate, 

 the third simple ray only osseous at the base, its height equal 

 to about half head. Ventrals and pectorals subequal, about 

 equal to head without snout. Ventrals separated by 2'/2 — 3 

 scales from lateral line ; their end far distant from anus or 

 reaching it. Pectorals nearly reaching ventrals or not so far. 

 Caudal deeply incised, its lobes pointed. Least height of caudal 

 peduncle more than 1^/2 times in length of head, somewhat 

 shorter than its own length, surrounded by 12 scales. Scales 

 with 2 to 4 radiating lines, in some scales more numerous 

 and anastomising. Silvery, back darkish. With or without a 

 more or less distinct black spot at the end of the lateral line 



