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Height 4.5, 6 in length with caudal. Head about 3.5, about 

 4.5 in length with caudal. Eye about 3, longer than pointed 

 snout, about equal to interorbital space. Cleft of mouth ascending, 

 its anterior transverse part with only a small elevation at the 

 symphysis of the mandibles and a very shallow emargination 

 of the upper jaw; on the level of the middle of the eye; its 

 hinderend not reaching vertical through frontborder of eye. 

 Origin of the dorsal in the middle between snout and last 

 caudal scales, opposite to 13^1 lateral scale, 13 scales in front 

 of it. Dorsal truncate, about in the middle between ventrals 

 and anal, its height equal to that of body. Anal concave, its 



Fig. 28. Rasbora pauciperforata n. sp. X 2 V-2' 



height less than that of the dorsal. Ventrals reaching anal, 

 their origin one eyediameter nearer to anal than to operculum. 

 Pectorals shorter than head, not reaching ventrals. Caudal 

 longer than head, their pointed lobes about twice the length 

 of the shortest rays. Least height of caudal peduncle more 

 than twice shorter than its length. Twelve scales round middle of 

 caudal peduncle. Lateral line perforating the five first scales, 

 one or two scales farther there may be an other perforated 

 scale. Yellowish, back brown as also a broad lateral band 

 from eye to caudal, separated from the brown of the back by 

 a light band. A median black line along the back and one 

 along the inferior side of the caudal peduncle. Fins hyaline, 

 minutely dotted with black. Length 36 mm. [Type of the 

 species in the zoological Museum of Amsterdam]. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Gunung Sahilan!, .Deli!); collected by 

 Dr. KLEIWEG DE ZWAAN. 



19. Rasbora heteromorpha Duncker. 



Rasbora heteromorpha Duncker, Fische Malay. Halbinsel, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus, 

 Hamburg, XXI. 1904, p. 182. 



