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creasing size 2.6 to 4 ; head 3 to 3.3 in length. Eye 3.2 to 4.6 

 (in large specimens) in length of head, in fullgrovvn specimens 

 about equal to snout ; about twice (less in small specimens) 

 in postorbital part of head and more or less than 1.5 times 

 in nearly flat interorbital space, which goes somewhat more 

 or less than 2.5 times in length of head. Maxillary reaching 

 to frontborder of eye. Origin of dorsal midway between head 

 and base of caudal, or somewhat nearer to lastnamed ; opposite 

 to 17th or i8th lateral scale and separated by 26 — 28 (30) prae- 

 dorsal scales from snout. The 5th to /tl^ or St^^ dorsal ray 

 strongly produced and reaching on caudal. Anal with a basal 

 sheath of one row of small scales, which may increase to I'/o 

 or 2 irregular rows, by interpolation of smaller ones. Anal 

 rays, before the 2 or 3 last short ones, increasingly produced, 

 so that they even may reach nearly to end of caudal. Caudal 

 large, its central rays produced. The filamentous lengthening 

 of the median fins varies individually (with sex?) and increases 

 with increasing length of body. Pectorals rather long, about 

 equal to head without snout or slightly shorter. Height of caudal 

 peduncle at base of caudal 1.6 — 1.8 in head. Head and back 

 darker, otherwise light brown with numerous more or less 

 distinct dark lines, corresponding with the transverse series of 

 scales above anal sheath, usually more accentuated by a series 

 of corresponding dark spots. In small specimens the successive 

 4th or 5th transverse line may be fainter, what gives the im- 

 pression of broad, not pronounced dark crossbars; small spe- 

 cimens may also have a broad dark longitudinal band from 

 snout to caudal in the middle of the side. A black spot behind 

 chin. Branchiostegal membrane blackish or isthmus with a 

 blackish patch, which may increase to a band from eye to 

 eye. Fins dusky, but the dorsal may have series of dark spots 

 or longitudinal bands. Length 115 mm. [Specimens oi B. anaba- 

 toides Regan in the British Museum seen by us]. 



Nom. indig. : Tempalo (Sumatra, Djambi). 



Habitat: Singapore; Sumatra (Bagan Api Api !, Djambi!, 

 Taluk!, Si Djundjung!, Gunung Sahilan!, Lahat) ; Island Sing- 

 kep!; Biliton ; Banka ; Borneo (Sambas, Sarawak, Pontianak !, 

 Knapei !, Sibau !, Banjermassin, Kahajan). 



In rivers, brooks and ponds. 



Note: A collection of about 150 specimens in the Museums 

 of Leiden and Amsterdam from Bleeker's collection and 



