200 



snout convex. Height 2.3, 3.3 in length with caudal. Head 3.3, 

 4.7 in length with caudal. Eye 3, somewhat longer than snout, 

 surrounded by a gelatinous membrane, situated somewhat below 

 the dorsal profile, shorter than the flat interorbital space. Snout 

 convex, obtuse. Mouth strongly arched, nearly reaching front- 

 border of eye. No barbels. Origin of dorsal opposite to io tn 

 scale of lateral line, above the middle of a line connecting 

 end of snout and root of caudal, and about opposite to origin 

 of ventrals, separated by 13 scales from occiput. Dorsal with 

 a high scaly sheath, deeply concave, the anterior rays prolonged. 

 Fourth osseous spine strongly serrated and much longer than 

 head. Anal with a scaly sheath, deeply concave, third osseous 

 spine strong, somewhat shorter than head. Pectorals and ven- 

 trals subequal. Ventrals separated by 4 x / 2 scales from lateral 

 line, just reaching anal. Pectorals longer than head without 

 snout, reaching on ventrals. Caudal deeply forked, its lobes 

 pointed, much longer than head. Least height of caudal peduncle 

 twice in head, somewhat shorter than its own length. Most scales 

 with numerous very fine undulating longitudinal lines. Silvery, 

 back darkish. Fins with a blackish hue. Length over 350 mm. 



Nomen indig. : Bulu-bulu (Malay. Banjermassin) ; Sanggan 

 (Samarinda) ; Ikan Bangalan (Malay, Sumatra). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Palembang, Lahat, Ringat!, Danau 

 Sialong Lotong); Borneo (river Kapuas: Pontianak, Sintang, 

 Smitau, Selimbouw, Danau Sriang, river Barito: Banjermassin, 

 river Kahajan, river Mahakam : Samarinda!, and its affluent 

 Bo, river Baram). 



27. Puntius waandersi (Blkr.). 



Systomus Waandersi Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XVI. 1858 1859, p. 358. 

 Systomus (Systomus] Waandersi Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 



1860, p. 359. 



Puntius (Puntius) Waandersi Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. no. 

 Barbus waandersi Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 149. 

 Barbus Waandersi Vaillant, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. (3) V. 1893, p. 83. 

 Barbus proctozysron Volz, Revue Suisse Zool. XII. 1904, p. 477 (nee Bleeker) >). 



I) This species is mentioned by VOLZ (Revue suisse de Zool. XII. 1904, p. 477) 

 from river Kwantan, Sumatra. Fortunately he gives an ample description of his 

 single example. This description shows, that he had not a specimen of B. proc- 

 tozysron Blkr. but of Puntius waandersi Blkr. at his disposition. VOLZ states in 

 his description: Lange der Brustflosse gleich der grossten Korperhohe oder 

 gleich der Ventralflosse." This is an impossibility and probably a misprint for 



