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deeply emarginate, the lobes rounded and widely diverging, 

 longer than head. Least height of caudal peduncle 1.8 in head, 

 somewhat less than its own length, surrounded by 16 scales. 

 Some of the scales with numerous short longitudinal striae at 

 their hindborder. Tubes of lateral line short and partly directed 

 downward. Silvery, upper surface dark. Dorsal and caudal 

 darkish. Length 500 mm. 



Nom. in dig. : Lawak or Lalawak (Malay. Batavia). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Djambi!); Java (Batavia, Surabaya); 

 Riouw !. 



Doubtful species. 



30. Puntius amblyrhynchus (Blkr.). 



Barbus obtusirostris Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XIII. 1857, p. 355 (nee C.V.). 

 Systomus (Bar bodes] obtusirostris Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 



i860, p. 345. 



Puntius (Barbodes) amblyrhynchus Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 104. 

 Barbus amblyrhynchus Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 126. 



Founded on one specimen of 49 mm. length from Java 

 (Tjampea). After having seen the type of the species in the 

 British Museum, we are convinced that it is a young, monstruous 

 "example, with shortened snout, perhaps of Puntius binotatus(C. V.). 



31. Puntius bunter (Blkr.) '). 



Barbus bunter Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XIII. 1857, p. 150. 

 Systomus (Barbodei) bunter Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 



1860, p. 340. 

 Puntius (Barbodes) bunter Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 101. 



As the only specimen of 115 mm. length was lost, after a 

 drawing of it was made, BLEEKER could dispose for his des- 

 cription only of this drawing, which, according to his own 

 opinion, was not correct in every point. 



32. Puntius carassioides (Heckel). 



Barbus carassioides Heckel, Fische Syriens 1843, p. 29. 



Systomus* (Barberies') carassioides Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. II. Cyprini, 

 1860, p. 352. 



HECKEL'S description of a species, said to be from Borneo, 

 characterized by n radio osseo in pinna dorsali et anali ; margine 

 postico serrato", is too short to make any definition possible. 



i) By GUNTHER: Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 83, erroneously called "punter"; 

 Bunter is the sundanese name for some species of Puntius. 



