1909.] FISHES OF THE family anabaxtid.e. 777 



Trichopsis striatus Bleek. Verb. Batav. Genootsch. xxiii. 1850, 

 no. 8, p. 11. 



Osjjkroviemcs striatus Gtinth. Cat. Fish. iii. p. 386 (1861). 



Ctenops striatus Bleek. Atl. Ichth. pi. cccxcvi. (1878), and 

 Verh. Ak. Amst. xix. 1879, p. 24. 



Depth of body 2^ to 3 in the length. Snout shorter than eye. 

 Dorsal II-IV 6-8. ~ Anal VI- VII 24-28. 28 scales in a longi- 

 tudinal series. Body with dark longitudinal stripes, on each side 

 two from the eye to the caudal fin, the upper bearing a humeral 

 spot ; usually two moi'e stripes on each side, one above ending- 

 just behind the dorsal fin, the other from the chin thi'ough the 

 base of the pectoral to the end of the anal. 



JIab. Cochin China, Siam, Java, Sumatra., and Borneo. Seven 

 specimens, measuring up to 60 mm. in total length, from Cochin 

 China {Paris Mus.), Siam [lloiihot), and Java. 



2. Ctenops nobilis. 



Ctenops nobilis McClell. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 1844, p. 281, 

 pi. xxi. fig, 1. 



Osph7-07)ienus nobilis Day, Fish. Ind. p. 372, pi. Ixxviii. fig. 5 

 (1878). 



Depth of body 2g to 3 in the length. Snout longer than eye. 

 Dorsal V-VII 7-8. Anal IV-V 24-28. 29 to 33 scales in a 

 longitudinal series. Brownish, with darker stripes along the 

 series of scales and with scattered blackish spots ; a silvery white 

 stripe, more or less interrupted, from ej'e to base of caudal ; 

 below it two similar stripes or series of oblong spots ; fins with 

 small dark spots ; an ocellus on the upper pai't of the base of the 

 caudal. 



Hab. North-eastern Bengal and Assam. 



Eight specimens, measuring up to 75 mm. in total length, 

 from N.E. Bengal [Jerdon). 



9. Betta. 



Betta Bleek. Verh. Batav. Genootsch. xxiii. 1850, no. 8, p. 12, 

 and Verh. Ak. Amst. xix. 1879, p. 26; Giinth. Cat. Fish. iii. 

 p. 388 (1861). 



Farophiocephalus Popta, Notes Leyden Mus. xxv. 1905, p. 184, 

 and xxvii. 1906, p. 9. 



Body moderately elongate, more or less compressed. Jaws 

 with fixed conical teeth ; palate toothless. Prseorbital and 

 opercular bones entire. Dorsal without or with a single spine 

 and with 7 to 1 1 soft rays ; origin above the anal ; anal without 

 or with 1 to 4 spines and with 20 to 37 soft rays ; pelvics inserted 

 below or a little in advance of the pectorals, of a spine and 5 soft 

 rays, the outermost of which is moi'e or less pioduced. Scales 

 large, regulaily ai'ranged ; lateral line vestigial oi- absent. 



Fourteen species from Siam, the Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. 



