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Syiiibianchus hoigaLcnsis Day, Fishes of India 4^. 1S78 — 1888, p. 657. 

 Symbranclms bcngalensis Max Weber, Zool. Ergebn. Keise Niederl. Ost-Indien 



Heft 2, 1894, p. 428. 

 Syinbranchtis bengale/isis Volz, Revue Suisse Zool. XII. 1904, p. 481. 

 Syinbra/ic/tus bengale/isis Regan, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, XX. I'rt. 6, 1914, p. 275. 



Height 27 — 30; head 10.5 to more than ii; 8 times in trunk. 

 Tail nearly 4 times in head and trunk. Eye 20 or more, 

 situated above anterior third of cleft of mouth, which goes about 

 4 times in head. Origin of dorsal somewhat before anus. Dark 

 brown, somewhat lighter below. Length 530 mm. 



Nomen in dig.: Putjuk-Kirai (Bantam). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Lake Tador, Upper Langkat); Java 

 (Batavia, Perdana); Borneo (Banjermasin); Celebes (Makassar, 

 Palima at mouth of river Tjinrana!); New Guinea (Mimika 

 river!). — Dampier Archipelago, Philippines, Cochin, Siam, 

 Peninsula of India. 



In fresh and brackish water. 



Indo-austrai.ian FisiiKs III. 27 



