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 i. Dangila ocellata (Heck.). 



Cyrene ocellata Heckel, Russegger's Reisen I. 2 Theil, Fische Syriens 1843, p. 1025. 

 Dangila microlepis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 595. 

 Dangila ocellata Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 1860, p. 194. 



Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 43. 

 Dangila ocellata Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 37. 



0.4.2728; A. 3.5; P. 1.15 18; V. i.8;L.1.66;L.tr. i . 



1517 



Height about 3.3, 4.1 4.5 in length with caudal. Head about 

 4-5> 5-5 6 in length with caudal. Eye 3, equal to snout, but 

 much shorter than flat interorbital space. Conspicuous pores 

 anteriorly on the snout, generally in two rows. Maxillary barbels 

 equal to eye or shorter, rostral ones shorter. Origin of dorsal 

 opposite to 1 2th or 13 th scale of lateral line, separated by 

 20 24 scales from occiput. Dorsal elevated in its anterior 

 part, longest rays about equal to length of head. Anal with 

 the anterior rays prolonged, about ! / 6 shorter than length of 

 head, its origin opposite to about 46^ scale of lateral line and 

 to 23 r <* branched ray of dorsal. Ventrals and pectorals sub- 

 equal. Ventrals surpassing anus, their origin separated by 10 1 1 

 scales from about 42 nd scale of lateral line and opposite to 

 7* branched ray of dorsal. Pectorals shorter than head. Caudal 

 deeply incised, the lobes pointed, equal to or longer than height 

 of body. Least height of caudal peduncle more than twice in 

 head, about 1.4 1.6 in its own length, surrounded by 28 scales. 

 Silvery, back dark. A black spot edged with yellow below 

 lateral line, situated above middle of pectoral, and another 

 at the end of the lateral line. Finmembrane of dorsal darkish, 

 caudal with a dark hue. Length about 220 mm. 



N o m. i n d i g. : Luma (Lampong); Lamba or Lambak (Palem- 

 bang, Djambi). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Pangabuang, Palembang !, Lahat, Lema- 

 tang Enim, Gunung Sahilan !, Sungei Mahe, Danau Sialong 

 lotong, river Kwantan, Indragiri, Djambi !); Borneo (river Kapuas: 

 Pontianak, Sintang !, Sebruang, Knapei, Selimbau !, Putus Sibau, 

 Bunut !, Danau Sriang, and its affluent river Mendalam !. river 

 Kahajan, river Mahakam!). 



2. Dangila fasciata Blkr. 



Dangila fasciata Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. IV. 1853, p. 297 ; Ichth. 

 Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 1860, p. 195. Atl. Ichth. III. 1863. p. 44. 



