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lateral line. Pectorals rounded, somewhat shorter than head. 

 Caudal incised, the lobes pointed, jibout equal to head. A broad 

 brown band runs from the snout to the end of the middle 

 caudal rays, including the lateral line, separated from the dark 

 back by a light streak of the same colour as the ventral 

 surface. Dorsal and anal with a broad oblique black band, 

 ventrals with a large black patch. Length i6o mm. 



Nom indig. : Selimang and Selessur (Djambi). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Palembang, Lahat, river Batang Hari : 

 Djambi!, river Kwantan: Taluk!); Borneo (river Kapuas: Ponti- 

 anak, Sintang, Sebruang, Sibau, river Kahajan, Banjermassin). 



28. Crossoch^ilus (v. Hasselt) Bleeker. 



(Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie V. 1853, p. 525). 



Elongate, compressed. Dorsal and ventral profile slightly 

 convex. Snout .obtusely rounded, prominent, without a lateral 

 lobe, with larger or smaller pores and horny tubercles. No 

 pendulous rostral fold. Upper lips generally fringed, covering 

 the square inferior gape of mouth when closed, and sending 

 from its lateral part a cutaneous frenulum to the lateral 

 part of the lower jaw, but not continued to the lower lip. 



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Fig. 95. Crossochilus gitathopogoii \\. sp. X ^/o- 



Lower lip rather fleshy, without postlabial groove, not con- 

 nected with the upper lip. Upper jaw with a sharp edge, its 

 broadened lateral parts introverted and embracing the lateral 

 part of the lower jaw, which has a sharp bony edge and a 

 symphysial ridge. A pair of rostral and of maxillary barbels, 

 one pair or the other may be absent. Eye with a free orbital 

 margin. Short dorsal without osseous ray and with 8 branched 



