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Habitat: In brooks, rivers, ponds all over Sumatra, Nias, 

 Java, Bali, Lombok, Borneo, Banka, Biliton, Singapore. 

 Malacca, Philippines. Numerous specimens seen by us from 

 Sumatra, Nias, Java, Borneo. 



GliNTHER mentions I.e. among the localities of Barbus bino- 

 tatus "i young Amboyna. From the collection of Mad. Ida 

 Pfeiffer." This is without question erroneous, as no Cyprinid 

 occurs in Ambon. 



Note: We have included Barbus palavanensis Blgr., the 

 type of which we have seen in the British Museum, in the 

 above list of synonyms of Puntius binotatus (C.V.), as we consider 

 it to be a colour-variety of that species, where the markings 

 of the immature (see our figure 74, p. 189) have been retained. 



15. Puntius platysoma (Blkr.). 



Barbus platysoma Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie IX. 1855, p. 404. 

 Systomus {Barbodes) platysoma Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. . Prodr. II. Cyprini, 



1860, p. 336. 



Pimtius (Barbodes} platysoma Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 100. 

 Barbus platysoma Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 122. 



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0.4.8; A. 3.5; P. 1.1213; V. 2.8; L.I. 26; L. tr. j_. 



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Strongly compressed, much elevated, dorsal profile much 

 arched. Height i 3 / 4 , almost 2 ! / 2 in length with caudal ; head 3.6, 

 5 2 / 3 in length with caudal ! ). Eye about 3, longer than the short, 

 obtuse snout, 1.4 in interorbital space. Barbels subequal, not much 

 longer than eye. Origin of dorsal behind that of the ventrals, 

 separated by about 10 scales from occiput and nearer to root 

 of caudal than to end of snout. Dorsal emarginate, its fourth 

 osseous spine strong, coarsely serrated, its stiff portion being 

 as long as head without snout, with its flexible portion longer 

 than head. Anal emarginate, much lower than dorsal. Ventrals 

 and pectorals subequal, 5 2 / 3 in length, slightly shorter than 

 head, separated by 3 ! / 2 series of scales from lateral line, nearly 

 reaching anal; the pectorals nearly reaching ventrals. Caudal 

 deeply incised, the lobes pointed, longer than head. Caudal 

 peduncle short, twice as high as long, its height i 2 / 5 in length 

 of head, surrounded by about 18 scales 1 ). Coloration uniform. 



i) The single specimen known, preserved in the British Museum and studied 

 by us, is much damaged; the measures including the caudal are taken from 

 BLEEKER'S description. 



