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Haplochilus pancKax 



WALTER LANMOT BRIND, F. Z. S. 



Haplochilus panchax 



Haplochilus panchax is one of the East 

 Indian tooth-carps which has been some- 

 what neglected by American aquarists, 

 so that even the typical form — the red 

 phase — has become quite rare in our col- 

 lections. Compared with its cousin, 

 Haplochilus lineatus, it is not a voracious 

 species, and I keep it in harmony in hap- 

 py family aquaria with docile species of 

 its own size or larger. It seeks to avoid 

 rather than encourage clashes with its 



India 



fellow denizens. Whether others secur- 

 ed this species prior to 1910, when I 

 brought specimens from Germany, I do 

 not know. A few years ago it was col- 

 lected for me in Java by an officer on the 

 Radja, one of the vessels of the Nether- 

 lands Steamship Company, and brought 

 to New York with other interesting 

 fishes. At the time of the end of the 

 World War my collector was transfer- 

 red to another ship and ceased to make 



