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A blackish longitudinal intramarginal band runs along each 

 lobe of the caudal. Length 340 mm. 



N o m. i n d i g. : Lampan (Lampong, Sumatra) ; Kepiat (Djambi); 

 Tenadak mera, Lempem or Lampam (Mahakam). 



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

 Pandjang, Pajakombo, Lake Manindjau, river Kwantan or 

 Indragiri: Si-Djungdjung!, Taluk!, Ringat!, river Kampar: 

 Gunung Sahilan !, river Lamatang ilir : Benekat, Upper Langkat, 

 Djambi !, river Musi: Palembang, river Kompeh: Muara Kompeh, 

 river Pangabuang (Lampong), river Uler, Serdang) ; Borneo 

 (river Kapuas: Pontianak, Kota Bangun !, Bunut! and its upper 

 course, river Baram, Lake Danau Sriang, river Mahakam : Sama- 

 rinda!, Batu Pangal !). Malacca, Siam. 



6. Puntius lateristriga (C. V.). 



Barbtis lateristriga Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XVI. 1842, p. 161. 

 Barbm lateristriga Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. (1851) 1852, p. 95. 

 Systonms (Barbodes) lateristriga Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini 



1860, p. 342. Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 102. 

 Barbus lateristriga Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 125. 

 Bar bus lateristriga Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, Sitzber. Akad. Wien, LXI. 



I. Abth. 1870, p. 632. 



Barbus lateristriga Volz, Zool. Jahrb. Abth. System. XIX. 1903, p. 399. 



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D.4.8; A. 3.5; P. 1.14 15; V. 1.8; L.I. 23; L. tr.T. 



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Oblong, compressed, somewhat elevated. Dorsal profile 

 ascending with a slight convexity behind the nape. Height 

 2.4 2.5, 3 3.1 in length with caudal. Head 3.7, 4.5 4.8 in 

 length with caudal. Eye about 4, situated close to the upper 

 profile of the head, much shorter than obtuse snout, i ! / 2 in 

 flat interorbital space. Snout obtuse, mouth nearly terminal. 

 Rostral barbels nearly equal to eye, maxillary ones conspicuously 

 longer. Origin of dorsal opposite to that of ventrals, opposite 

 to 7 th or 8 th scale of lateral line, separated by 8 scales from 

 occiput, about in the middle between end of snout and base 

 of caudal. Dorsal nearly truncate, the fourth osseous spine 

 rather strong, with fine and crowded serrae; in adult specimens 

 more than half as long as head, in younger ones longer than 

 head without snout. Anal slightly emarginate, longest rays 

 equal to half head, longer in young specimens. Ventrals and 

 pectorals subequal. Ventrals separated by 2 2 ! / 2 scales from 

 lateral line, not reaching anus. Pectorals about 2 / 3 of head, 



