1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1249 



Capoeta macrolepidota, Kuhl and Van Hasselt. 

 Capoeta macrolepidota, Cuv. and Val. XVI. 280, PL 477, (Young.) 



Adult. Head above brownish olive ; back silvery greenish olive, 

 lighter on the upper half of the sides, the rest and abdomen light 

 golden ; all the scales edged with pale brown, some with a pale dark 

 spot at the root ; the oblique series in front of the dorsal fin greenish 

 olive, forming a dark obliquely backwards-directed band, interrupted 

 by the lateral line ; opercles and cheeks shining iridescent silvery ; be- 

 tween the eye and the angle of the mouth a blackish blue triangular 

 spot terminating in lines radiating towards the preopercle ; lips and 

 cirri minutely dotted with black ; fin-membranes transparent ; rays 

 buff minutely dotted with black : the three first dorsal, and the first 

 pectoral blackish ; caudal with a broad blackish brim above and below. 

 Iris golden, upper orbital half black. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having the dark oblique band in 

 front of the dorsal more distinct and reaching to the abdomen ; cheeks 

 uniformly silvery without any spot. 



D 3/3, C 19f, A 2/5 or 6, V 2/8, P 16, Br. III. 



Habit. — Freshwater, Pinang. 

 Java, Tenasserim. 



Total length : 1 1 inch. 



The length of the head is 4 \ in the total ; the depth at occiput f of 

 the length of the head. The eye, bordering on the profile, occupies 

 the second fourth of the head, that being the length of its horizontal 

 diameter ; the distance across the forehead is 1^ diameter. The oper- 

 cles and cheeks are naked. Four large infraorbitals surround the orbit, 

 From the temple round the lower margin of the orbit over the infra- 

 orbital proceeds a tube, which sends downwards several shorter ones. 

 The openings of the nostrils are situated close in front of the eye i 

 both are separated by a projecting fleshy septum. The lips and tongue 

 are fleshy ; on the symphysis of the lower jaw appears a small pro= 

 tuberance. Behind both jaws appears a crescent-shaped fold of the 

 membrane lining the mouth. The small filament at the angle of the 

 mouth is § of the horizontal diameter of the eye. The greatest verti- 

 cal diameter of the body, in front of the dorsal, is A\ in the total 

 length. The sides are covered by 7 longitudinal series of large rhom- 



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