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the fourth and fifth on the caudal peduncle. These bands may 

 have a brownish-yellow margin. Base of dorsal or part of it 

 blackish. Length 51 mm. [After BOULENGER and STEINDACHNER, 

 not seen by us]. 



Habitat: Singapore [British Museum] ; Borneo (Baram river, 

 Akar river [British Museum]). Malay Peninsula [British 

 Museum]. 



10. Puntius tetrazona (Blkr.). 



Barbus tetrazona Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sclent. Indo-Neerl. II. 1857. Tiende Bijdr. 



Ichth. Borneo p. 14. 

 Systotnus (Barbodes) tetrazona Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 1860, 



P- 341- 



Puntius (Barbodes) tetrazona Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 102. 

 Barbus tetrazona Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 124. 



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D.4.8; A. 3.5; P. 1.14; V. 1.8; L.I. 24 25; L.tr. _i_- 



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Compressed, dorsal profile arched from snout to dorsal. 

 Height 2.8, 3.1 in length with caudal. Head 3.5, 4.7 in length 

 with caudal. Eye 3.8, slightly shorter than snout and inter- 

 orbital space. Snout obtuse, slightly prominent, rostral barbels 

 shorter than maxillary ones, which are nearly twice eye. Origin 

 of dorsal opposite to 8th scale of lateral line and to origin of 

 ventrals, nearly opposite to the middle of a line connecting 

 end of snout and base of caudal, separated by 9 scales from 

 occiput. Dorsal nearly truncate, fourth osseous spine of moderate 

 strength and finely serrated behind, with its flexible portion 

 equal to head without snout. Anal truncate, its longest rays 

 half length of dorsal. Pectorals and ventrals equal, slightly 

 shorter than head. Ventrals reaching anus, outer prolonged ray 

 reaching anal; separated by 3 scales from lateral line. Outer 

 ray of pectorals prolonged, reaching on ventrals. Caudal deeply 

 emarginate, lobes somewhat pointed, shorter than head. Least 

 height of caudal peduncle nearly half length of head, i'/ 2 in 

 its own length, surrounded by 12 scales. Scales with longitudinal 

 striae. Colour of specimen examined probably faded. Silvery, 

 with brownisch upper surface. A dark broad band from back 

 behind nape to above pectorals, a second broad band from 

 base of dorsal to ventrals, a third band across the tail to base 

 of anal but not continued below lateral line, a fourth band 

 nearly reduced to a large patch at end of caudal peduncle. 

 An indication of a longitudinal band immediately above the 



