1 248 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, [Nov. 



Young. Head above and back blackish olive, lighter on the sides 

 of the head (cheeks pale bluish), and of the body above the lateral 

 line ; beneath the latter, the throat and abdomen impure bluish white ; 

 lips pale blackish ; body everywhere closely dotted with brown ; pec- 

 torals blackish above, whitish beneath ; rest of the fins pale greyish olive 

 minutely dotted and edged with black ; cirri blackish, root of mandi- 

 bular pairs whitish; anal papilla and ramified appendage crimson. 

 Iris golden dotted with brown. 



1st D 1/4, V 13, P 1/9, Br. XII.— Cirri i- 



M. M. Cuvier and Valenciennes count: 2d D 109, C 11, A 97, 



(total: 217). 



Habit. — Sea and estuaries ofPinang, Malayan Peninsula. 

 Batavia. 



Total length : 6f inch. 



The length of the head is £ of the total ; the depth at occiput little 

 more than % of the head. The horizontal diameter of the eye is £ of 

 the head, the distance across the forehead two such diameters. The 

 nasal cirri are a little longer than the head, the maxillary a little 

 shorter and slenderer, the outer mandibular are f of the latter, the 

 inner pair slightly shorter. M. M. Cuvier and Valenciennes describe 

 the maxillary cirri as J shorter than the nasal, but the outer mandibu- 

 lar pair as long as the latter. All the teeth are strong, conical. The 

 greatest vertical diameter in front of the first dorsal is \ of the total 

 length. The dorsal spine is \ of the length of the head and but little 

 shorter than the first ray. The pectoral spine is slenderer than the 

 dorsal, the first ray slightly exceeds \ of the length of the head. The 

 ventrals are \ shorter than the pectorals. The caudal is oval, rounded. 

 The lips are fleshy and papillular. Minute papillae appear here and 

 there on the body. The conical anal papilla is rather large, and the 

 ramified appendage longer and with a greater number of branches than 

 in P. anguillaris.— At Pinang, the present species is less numerous 

 than the former. The wounds of both are equally dreaded, and both 

 are eaten by the poorer classes of natives. 



FAM. CYPRINOID.E. 



Gen. Capoeta, Cuv. and Vol. 1842. 



Third bony dorsal ray toothed; a filament at the angle of the 

 mouth ; body compressed, covered with large scales. 



