1 70 



Length 148 mm. [Type of the species in the zoological Museum 

 of Amsterdam]. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Bandar Baru !) ; collected by Dr. L. 

 PH. DE BUSSY. 



1 8. Puntius Hamilton Buchanan. 

 (HAMILTON BUCHANAN, Fishes Ganges 1822, p. 310). 



Oblong, more or less compressed. Snout generally short and 

 obtuse, without pores or tubercles in indo-australian species. 

 Mouth terminal or subinferior. Upper jaw more or less pro- 



Fig. 70. Puntius brevis (Blkr.) X 2 - 



tractile. Lips generally thin, continuous. The postlabial groove 

 which runs parallel with the lips, is interrupted in the middle 

 of the lower jaw. Lower lip sometimes separated by a super- 



Fig. 71. Puntius belinka (Blkr.) Pharyngeal teeth. X 4- 

 ficial furrow from the lower jaw, which has no bony covering. 

 Eyes sometimes with a narrow circular gelatinous membrane. 

 Suborbital bones narrow. A rostral and a maxillary pair of 



