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long as eye. Gill-rakers, 3 or 449 or 10, about 4 in filaments and 
latter 13 in eye. Pharyngeal teeth, 2, 3, 5—5, 3,2, hooked, with mod- 
erate grinding-surfaces and one or two of outer row little enlarged 
basally and less marked. Scales with 5 to 10 basal radiating striae, 
basally 4 or 5 lobes, and 3 to 8 apical radiating striae, circuli very fine. 
Color in alcohol dull natal brown on back with lavender reflections. 
Lower surface paler to whitish with silvery reflections. Margins of 
most scales on back and sides each with border of fine dusky dots, 
giving all appearance of darkened edges. Underlaid lateral leaden 
vertebral streak. Along this, row of four brackish spots, little larger 
than pupil and not large as eye. First of these humeral, next opposite 
dorsal origin, third opposite tip of depressed dorsal and last at caudal 
base. Another blackish spot opposite and close to dorsal origin. With 
age most of spots fade or become obsolete, only caudal and one at 
dorsal origin usually remaining. Head natal brown like back, side 
and iris silvery-white, and under surface paler. Dorsal and caudal 
grayish, other fins largely pale or whitish, only minute pale brown 
dots medianly or terminally. Fourteen from fresh waters of Zam- 
boanga. Length 30 to 67 mm. 
We find all of our examples with four barbels well developed. In 
Oshima’s account of Puntius snyderi? the present species is placed 
in Puntius, as it is believed to be without barbels. In fact he em- 
phatically separates Puntius from Capoeta and Barlodes, primarily 
by the absence of barbels. We do not feel justified in attempting 
to limit our material on this character alone, and as it in most all 
respects answers Oshima’s Puntius snyderi are forced to consider it 
such. Gunther*® pertinently says of Barbus “even the number of 
barbels is not quite constant, and much caution is required in deter- 
mining whether a specimen belongs to a species normally with four 
or two, or without barbels, as these organs are sometimes quite rudi- 
mental, and abnormally, may be entirely absent; this is principally 
the case with the upper barbel, which I have found sometimes on 
one side and not on the other. Yet on such characters have natural- 
ists ventured to found genera!” 
Family COBITIDAE. 
MISGURNUS DECEMCIRROSUS (Basilewsky). 
Head, 54 to 54; depth, 54 to 53; D. 1, 7; A. m1, 7; scales, 94 to 116 
in lateral line to caudal base; 14 or 15 scales above lateral line to 
dorsal origin, 11 or 12 below to anal origin; 60 to 70 predorsal 
scales; snout, 22 in head; eye, 64; mouth width, 4; interorbital, 33. 
2 Ann, Carnegie Mus., vol. 12, 1919, p. 216, pl. 50, fig. 2. Rigyokutsu; Maruyama ; 
Daito River. 
2Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 7, 1868, p. 84. 
