70 



D. 2.7 ; A. 3.5 ; P. 1. 12 ; V. 1.7 ; L. 1. 24 26 (perforated scales). 



Height about equal to head, 3.6 4, 4.8 5.3 in length with 

 caudal. Eye 2.7 3, about equal to interorbital breadth; equal 

 to snout, which is rather pointed with a declivous dorsal 

 profile. Cleft of mouth ascending, its anterior end below the 

 level of the middle of the eye, posteriorly reaching below front- 

 margin of eye. Origin of dorsal in the middle between snout 

 and hindermost row of caudal scales, opposite to io th lateral 

 scale, 10 ii scales in front of it. Dorsal truncate, its height 

 about equal to that of body, about in the middle between 

 ventrals and anal. Anal concave, third ray the longest, its 

 height less than that of the dorsal. Ventrals slightly shorter 

 than pectorals, nearly reaching anal, their origin nearer to anal 

 than to operculum. Pectorals slightly shorter than head. Caudal 

 much longer than head, its longest rays more than twice the 

 length of the shortest. Least height of caudal peduncle about 

 i'/ 2 times in its length to the hindermost row of scales. 

 Seven rows of scales between the lateral lines, counted over the 

 back of the middle of the caudal peduncle. Colour of formol 

 specimens brownish, belly lighter. A black lateral line in the 

 hinderhalf of the body, situated in a dark band, which decreases 

 in extensity anteriorly. A median dorsal black line; a dark 

 line above base of anal, which may be continued to the caudal. 

 Fins hyaline, a black distal patch on the anterior part of the 

 anal. A fainter one on the frontborder of the dorsal. Length 

 about 60 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Taluk!); Banka. Malacca! 



10. Rasbora kalochroma (Blkr.). 



Leuciscus kalochroma Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie I. 1850, p. 272. 

 Rasbora kallochroma Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 1860, p. 443. 



Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 121. 



Rasbora kallochroma Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 195. 

 Rasbora kallochroma Vaillant, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. (3) V. 1893, p. 88. 

 Rasbora kallochroma Perugia, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) XIII, 1893, p. 244. 

 Rasbora maculata Duncker, Fische der Malay. Halbinsel, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. 



Hamburg, XVI. 1904, p. 182. 

 Rasbora kallochroma Max Weber & de Beaufort, in Maass: "Durch Zentral- 



Sumatra'', II. 1912, Fische, p. 528. 



D. 2.6; A. 3.5; P. 1.13; V. 2.6; L. 1. 2932; Sq. 1. 30 Si- 

 Height 3.7 3.8, 4.8 in length with caudal. Head 3.8 4, 



