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Habitat: Sumatra (Padang, Solok !, Lake Singkarah !, Lake 

 Manindjau !, Pati Bubur!, river Ular: Serdang!, river Kampar: 

 Gunung Sahilan!, river Kwantan, Upper and lower Langkat, 

 Danau Sialong lotong, Palembang!, Lahat, river Pengabuang, 

 Djambi!, Deli!); Java (Batavia!, Tjibiliong, Tjampea, Buiten- 

 zorg !, Pondok gedeh, Lake Kamodjing near Tjikampeh !, Garut !, 

 Lake Bagendit!, Serogal, Parongkalong, Pandjallu, Ngawi, 

 Surabaya, Grati, Lesti, Kediri !) ; Borneo (river Kapuas !, Seminis, 

 Danau Sriang, Baram river, and other rivers in Sarawak [British 

 Museum], Sambas, river Barito : Banjermassin, river Mahakam 

 and river Bo). - - Malacca; Tenasserim; Siam; Indo-China. 



Miss POPTA described a specimen of 189 mm. from the 

 river Bo, Borneo, as Barbus hampal var. bifasciata, distinguished 

 by a second dark band running in the middle of the caudal 

 peduncle. She observes, that this variety grows to a length of 

 500 mm. according to the collector Prof. A. W. NlEUWENHUlS. 

 We suppose that this is the partial retention of an infantile 

 coloration, for we have a specimen of 36 mm. from Djambi, 

 Sumatra, which has a very distinct black vertical band between 

 origin of dorsal and ventrals, a much less distinct one in the 

 middle of the caudal peduncle, a curved band behind the 

 opercle, a black band through the eye, a faint one at the base 

 of the caudal and a faint blotch at the origin of the anal. 



2. Hampala ampalong (Blkr.). 



Capoeta ampalong Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 594. 

 Hampala ampalong Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 1860, p. 310. 



Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 113. 

 Barbus ampalong Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 139. 



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0.3.8; A. 3.5; P. 1.15; V. 2.8; L.I. 28 29; L.tr._i_- 



3l 

 Height about 3.3, 4.2 in length with caudal. Head about 3, 



4 in length with caudal. Eye 4.8, ! / 3 shorter than snout, which 

 is slightly more than the interorbital space. Origin of dorsal 

 behind middle of a line connecting end of snout and base of 

 caudal, above 9* lateral scale, separated by 10 scales from 

 occiput. Dorsal spine distinctly serrated. Silvery, back darker. 

 Two large black blotches in the lateral line, one below origin 

 of dorsal, the other above end of anal. Anterior margin of 

 dorsal and upper and lower margin of caudal with a faint 

 narrow black streak. Length 155 mm. 

 INDO-AUSTRALIAN FISHES III. 10 



