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river Kapuas: Pontianak, Sintang, Knapei, Putus Genting!, 

 Danau Sriang; Montrado, Sambas). Siam, Indo-China, Malabar 

 and Western coast of India. 

 In rivers and ponds. 



Doubtful species. 



Ophiocephalus punctatus Bl. a species from British India, but 

 not known from Siam or Malakka, has been recorded by 

 KNER from Java (Fische Novara Exp. I. 1865 1867, p. 233). 

 BLEEKER (Verh. Akad. Amsterdam XIX 1879, Poissons pharyng. 

 labyr. p. 36) supposes, that the locality "Java" is erroneous. 

 We agree with BLEEKER, as KNER often made mistakes in 

 the records of localities. KAROLI (Termesz. Fuzetek V. 1882, 

 p. 25) records 0. punctatus besides from Ceylon, from Borneo 

 (Matarig, Sarawak), Java (Palabuan, Sindanglaja) and under the 

 name of 0. affinis Gthr., which is according to DAY a synonym 

 of 0. punctatus, also from Singapore. Already the fact, that 

 KAROLI mentions this species from so many localities in the 

 Indo-australian Archipelago, whereas it has never been recorded 

 by other authors from there, makes it probable that KAROLI 

 made a mistake. 



We don't think that 0. punctatus ought to have a place on 

 the list of Indo-australian species. 



2. Suborder Anabantoidei. 



Elongate and subcylindrical or usually compressed and oblong. 

 Snout long with the cleft of mouth wide and horizontal, or 

 snout short, mouthopening small, oblique; the lower jaw always 

 prominent. Intermaxillaries more or less protractile. Teeth in 

 jaws fixed, conical, never caniniform ; in Helostoma movable, 

 on lips only; palate, except Anabas, toothless. Scales large, 

 generally regularly arranged ; lateral line present, continuous 

 or interrupted, or vestigial or absent. Dorsal long or short, in 

 the last case shorter than anal, which is usually long. Both 

 fins with or without spines, various in number and strength, 

 the rays branched or not. Pectorals situated low down; ventrals 

 thoracic, when complete with a spine and five soft rays, but 

 often reduced till to one single filamentous ray. Gillopenings 

 wide or narrow. Pseudobranchiae none. Suprabranchial cavity 

 with a labyrinthiform organ (see p. 312). 



