a. Ventrals in the middle between tip of snout and 

 end of caudal or behind it. 



a. Colour uniform A. pangia p. 31. 



jfl. Spotted A. shelfordi p. 32. 



b. Ventrals much nearer to tip of snout than to 



end of caudal A. lorentzi p. 32. 



B. Dorsal much less than its own length before anal 

 or last ray even above first anal ray. 



a. 12 15 transverse bands on head and body . . A. kuhli p. 33. 



b. 3 bands on head only A. borneensis p. 34. 



II. Height 15 or more in total length. 



a. Last dorsal ray above first anal ray A. vermicularis p. 34. 



b. Dorsal and anal opposite A. anguillaris p. 35. 



i. Acanthophtalmus pangia (flam. Buch.). 



Acanthopthalmus javanicus van Hasselt, Alg. Konst- en Letterbode 1823, II. 



p. 133. (no description). 



Cobitis pangia Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes Ganges, 1824, p. 355, p. 394. 

 Cobitis oblonga Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVIII. 1846, p. 76. 

 Cobitis oblonga Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. III. 1858, 6de Bijdrage Visch- 



fauna Sumatra, p. 48. 

 Acanthophthalmus javanicus Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 1860, 



p. 75. Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. II. 



Acanthophthalmtts pangia Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 370. 

 Acanthophtalmus pangia Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 610. Fauna 



Brit. Ind. Fish. I. 1889, p. 222. 

 Acanthophthalmus pangia Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) IX. 1890, p. 347. 



D. 2.6; A. 7; P. 1.89; V. 6 7. 

 Compressed. Height from 

 more than 7 to n, head nearly 

 7 8. Eye small, covered by 

 thick skin, situated in the ante- 

 rior half of the head. Snout very 

 prominent, rather pointed. Lips 

 thick, the lower with two con- 

 tiguous rounded prolongations. 

 Barbels six, nearly equal, more 

 than thrice in the length of the 

 head. Origin of dorsal in the 



, r .1 i ,i i c Fig. 13. Head and anterior part of body 



beginning of the last third of $ " Acanthophthalmus p * ngia (Ham . 



the distance between opercle Buch.), and lower surface of anterior 



and caudal. Dorsal about in the P art of head ' X 2 '/*- 



middle between anal and end of ventrals, its own length before 



