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About 8 pharyngeal teeth. Colour brownish or yellowish green 

 above, lighter inferior. Middle of caudal with a brownish 

 transverse band. Length of the single specimen known 75 mm. 

 [Type of the species in the British Museum seen by us]. 

 Habitat: Sumatra (Lake Manindjau !). 



5. Homaloptera amphisquamata n. sp. 



D. 3.7; A. 3.5; P. 6.9 (io).i; V. 2 ( 3 ).6.i; L. 1.7073; 



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L. tr. ca i (to base of ventrals). 

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Height about 7.2 7.7; 8.5 9 in length with caudal. Head 

 4.7 4.8; 5.5 5.6 in length with caudal, its breadth about 

 4 / 5 of its length. Eye less than 5, much less than twice in 

 interorbital space and nearly twice in snout. Barbels subequal, 

 the outer ones, which are the longest, about as long as eye. 

 Origin of dorsal behind origin of ventrals, much nearer to snout 

 than to base of caudal, corresponding to 28 th perforated scale 

 of lateral line, separated by about 50 or more scales from 

 occiput. Dorsal truncate, its height about equal to that of body. 

 Origin of anal much nearer to base of caudal than to base 

 of ventrals, situated below the 55th to 58th perforated scale of 

 lateral line. Ventrals far distant from anus. Longest rays of 

 ventrals and pectorals nearly equal, much shorter than head. 

 Pectorals not reaching ventrals. Caudal nearly truncate, some- 

 what shorter than head. Scales on the upper anterior part of trunk 

 much smaller than the posterior ones. Scales on ventral surface 

 only present between and behind ventrals. Greyish brown, with 

 8 or less irregular blackish transverse bands on the back, much 

 broader than the interspaces. A blackish band on the base of 

 the caudal, and a very broad submarginal one ; dorsal with a 

 dark longitudinal band. Length 70 mm. [Type of the species 

 in the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam]. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Lau Borus, discharching river of Lake 

 Kawar (Laut Kawar) Karo-tableland Deli!), 58 examples col- 

 lected by Dr. L. PH. DE BUSSY. 



6. Homaloptera heterolepis n. sp. 

 D. 2.7; A. 2.5; P. 4 (5).8 ( 9 ).i; V. 2.78; L.I. 63 70; 



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L. tr. circa T (to base of ventrals). 



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Height 6.4 6.7, 7.6 7.9 in total length with caudal. Head 



