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14- Ham pal a Bleeker. 



(BLEEKER, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, XX, 185960, p. 430). 

 Elongate, compressed. Snout pointed. Mouth terminal, wide, 

 oblique, extending beyond the vertical from the frontmargin 

 of the orbit. Jaws equal in length, the upper not much pro- 

 tractile. The upper lip broadened anteriorly, the lower one 

 laterally; postlabial groove (furrow) running parallel with lips, 

 interrupted in the middle of the lower lip. A barbel behind corner 

 of mouth. Dorsal with 8 branched rays and a low basal scaly 

 sheath, its origin opposite to that of ventrals, its last osseous 



Fig. 60. Hampala macrolepidota (C.V.). X 2 /9- 



ray feeble and finely serrated. Anal with 5 branched rays. 

 Scales large, radially striated or granulated, some with reticu- 

 lated lines. Lateral line complete, somewhat curved towards belly, 

 sensory tubes undivided. No sensory folds on head and no 

 tubercles on snout. Gillmembranes united to isthmus, opposite to 

 hindpart of eye. Pharyngeal teeth spoon-shaped, 5.3.1 1.3.5. 

 Distribution: Fresh water of indo-australian Archipelago 

 (Sumatra, Java, Borneo); Malacca, Tenasserim, Siam, Indo-China. 



Key to the indo-australian species. 



A. Linea lat. 28 29. 



1. A more or less distinct oblong vertical blotch 



between dorsal and ventral H. macrolepidota p. 143. 



2. Two large black blotches in lateral line H. ampalong p. 145. 



B. Linea lat. 25 27. 



I. Two large vertical blotches on the side H. bimaculata p. 146. 



i. Kampala macrolepidota (C.V.). 



Capoeta macrolepidota Cuvier& Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XVI. 1842, p. 280. 

 Capoeta macrolepidota Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. XXIII. (1849) 1850, Ichthyol. 



Midden- & Oost-Java, p. 20. 

 Capoeta macrolepidota Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1249. 



