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may be broadened ; sometimes beginning with a patch below 

 the dorsaj. Many specimens with a roundish black patch above 

 the base of anal, in others only faintly indicated or wanting. 

 A black median band on the back from head to caudal. Fins 

 with a dark hue, especially the caudal. Length about 120 mm. 



Nom indig. Tjetjerreh (Malay. Batavia), Parai and Gallen- 

 gang (Sundan.). 



Habitat: Java (Bantam [British Museum], Buitenzorg, Tji- 

 panas, Tjisaat!, Pangerango (1000 M.) !, Bandung!, Garut, 

 Purwakarta!, Surabaja!, Blimbing !, Banjumas, Pardana, Tand- 

 jong-Oost, Tjampea, Pandjallu, Djember!); Sumatra (Telok 

 Betong, Lahat, Pajakomboh, Manindjau); Borneo (Baram 

 river!); Bunguran Island!, Lombok!, Sumbawa. 



Note: We examined specimens of Bleeker's Rasbora macro- 

 cephalus in the Leyden Museum, and do not see sufficient 

 reason to separate them from R. lateristriata. Gunther united 

 R. macrocephalus with R. sumatrana, which we consider to be 

 a variety of R. lateristriata. 



15. Rasbora lateristriata var. sumatrana (Blkr.). 



Leuciscus sumatranus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 601. 

 Rasbora sumatrensis Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo/Neerl. VIII. 1860. 8ste bijdrage 



vischfauna Sumatra, p. 54. 

 Rasbora sumatrana Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 1860, p. 453. 



Atl. Ichth. Ill, 1863, p. 126. 



Rasbora sumatrana Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 196. 

 Rasbora sumatrana Vaillant, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. (3) V. 1893, p. 89 (partim). 

 Rasbora sumatrana Max Weber, Zool. Ergebn. Niederl. Indien, III, 1894, p. 424. 

 Rasbora sumatrana Vaillant, Notes Leyden Mus. XXIV. 1902, p. 106. 

 Rasbora vulgaris Duncker, Fische d. malay. Halbinsel, Mitt. Nat. hist. Mus. 



Hamburg, XXI. 1904, p. 181. 



Distinguished from R. lateristriata Blkr. by the number of 

 scales in the lateral line, which are generally less and may 

 decrease to 24, and by the dark lateral band, which is much 

 narrower and sometimes represented only by a bluish black 

 line, ending in an oval or roundish black patch before the 

 caudal '). In a series of young specimens from 35 to nearly 

 50 mm. the young stages show the broad lateral band of 



i) This patch is conspicuous in specimens of BLEEKER'S collection in the 

 Leyden Museum, although BLEEKER does not mention it in his description; in 

 these specimens the patch above the anal is indicated by a black pigmentation, 

 neither mentioned by BLEEKER. 



