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one the longer, much longer than head. Scales conspicuous, 

 about 100 in the lateral line. Colour, after Miss POPTA, yellowish, 

 with 12 14 transverse brown narrow bands on the back, 

 which are continued on the flanks, where some of them divide 

 so as to form 16 18 bands on the flanks. Dorsal rays with 

 brown spots, caudal with 2 or 3 brown curved lines and a 

 dark blotch at the middle of its base. Length 50 mm. 



Nomen in dig. : Ikan skuoro (Upper Mahakam). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Taluk!); Borneo (Upper Mahakam). 



2. Nemachilus fasciatus (C. V.) [Fig. 19, p. 39]. 



Cobltis fasciata Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVIII. 1846, p. 25. 



Cobltis suborbitalis Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 26. 



Cobitis chrysolaimos Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 27. 



Cobltis Jaklesi Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. III. 1852, p. 604. Ichth. 



Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 1860, p. 80. 



Cobltis Pfeifferl Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. IV. 1853, F- 2 9 8 - 

 Cobitis fasciata Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. VII. 1854, p. 96. Ichth. 



Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 1860, p. 78. 

 Nemacheilus fasciatus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 7. 

 Nemacheilus Jaldesi ' Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 8. 

 Nemacheilos fasciatus Kner, Novara-Exp. I. Fische 1865 67, p. 366. 

 Nemachilus fasciatus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 349. 

 Modigliania papillosa Perugia, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva (2) XIII. 1893, p. 246 '). 

 Nemachilus saravacensis Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) XIII. 1894, p. 251 '). 

 Nemachifas rupicola Vaillant, Notes Leyden Mus. XXIV. 1902, p. 31 ') 



D. 3.9; A. 3.5; P. 2.9; V. 1.7. 



Height 6 6.2, 7.4 8 in length with caudal. Head about 

 4.5, about 5.5 6 in length with caudal. Eye 5 to 6, more 

 than twice in snout, about i J / 3 in interorbital space. Inner 

 rostral pair of barbels shorter than the outer ones, which are 

 about equal to those at the corner of the mouth and equal 

 to half head. Origin of dorsal nearer to end of snout than to 

 base of caudal, slightly before or above origin of ventrals. 

 Dorsal oblique, its height nearly equal to head. Anal rounded, 

 its height less than that of dorsal, its origin about midway 

 between origin of ventrals and caudal. Ventrals not reaching 

 anus, shorter than head, equal to pectorals. Caudal deeply 

 emarginate, its lobes pointed, caudal much longer than head. 

 Scales small but conspicuous, about 130 in the lateral line and 

 about 50 in front of dorsal. Body with from 1 1 to 20 cross- 



i) See note on page 41. 



