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Haplochihts panchax Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 523. 

 Panchax panchax Chaudhuri, Mem. Ind. Mus. V. 1916, p. 451. 



D.7 8; A. 15 16; P. 14; V.6; L.I. 31; L.tr. 8'/,-9. 



Compressed behind, head depressed, flattened above as well 

 as the anterior part of back. Height 4.5 5.5, 5.5 j in length 

 with caudal. Head 3 3.5, 3.8 4.5 in length with caudal. Eye 

 about 3.5, somewhat shorter than snout, which is equal to 

 postorbital part of head and to interorbital space. Cleft of 

 mouth not quite extending to vertical through frontborder of 

 eye. Lower jaw slightly prominent. Small pointed teeth in 

 several rows in the jaws, smaller ones in ^ 



an irregular transverse series on head of 

 vomer. Origin of dorsal above 13*11 to 

 last anal ray, separated by 24 26 scales 

 from snout. Origin of ventrals scarcely 

 nearer to tip of snout than to base of 



m. 



Fig. 96. Panchax panchax (H.B.) X 5 /4- 



caudal. Pectorals as long as or somewhat 



longer than head without snout. Colour 



of alcohol specimens brownish, lighter 



below, each scale with a submarginal black 



border. A silvery shining spot on middle 



of occiput, just behind eye, not always 



visible in preserved specimens J ). Dorsal 



with a black blotch at its base. Anal 



and caudal more or less spotted with blackish. Paired fins 



hyaline. Length over 55 mm. 



Nom. in dig.: Tjupang and Kapala"/tima (Malay, Batavia), 

 Sisik malik (Sundan.), Wader peto (Javanese, Djocja). 



Habitat: Singapore; Sumatra; Java (pond near Priok !, 

 Batavia, Tandjong-Oost, Tjampea, Buitenzorg!, Gombong, Pand- 



Fig. 97. Panchax panchax 

 (H.B.). Head from above 

 X SVi? on occiput the silve- 

 ry spot; i intermaxillare, m 

 mandibula, n nostril. 



i) This spot occurs also in Aplocheilus. For its biological pecularities see: 

 MIEHE, Javanische Studien (Abhandl. d. Math. Phys. Kl. d. Kgl. Sachs. Ge- 

 sellsch. d. Wissensch., Bd. XXXII, Nr. 4, 1911) and Uber den Okzipitalfleck 

 von Haplochihis panchax (Biol. Centralbl. Bd. XXXI. 1911, p. 732). 



