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THE FISHES OF MALABAE. 
Sub-Fam. BARBINI, Bleeker. 
Geoup systomi, Bleeker. 
Genus PUNTIUS, Ham. Buck. 
Systomus, McClelland. 
Baebodes, Bleeker. 
Copoeta, Guv. & Val. 
Branchiostegals, three: pseudobranchise. Body oblong, sometimes compressed: abdomen more or 
less flat. Moutb destitute of teeth, it is of moderate size, and directed forwards: jaws slightly protrusible, 
the lower jaw the shortest; both are covered by the lips. Snout short. Preorbital pentagonal, not elon¬ 
gated, directed upwards, backwards, or downwards, but never directly anteriorly. Lips of the two jaws 
continuous, with the postlabial sulcus simple, and parallel with the margin of the jaws. Cirri four (. Bar- 
bodes, Bleeker), one pair on snout, one on maxillse : or two ( Capoeta , Cuv. & Val.) on the supramaxillaries: 
or none {Buntius, Ham. Bach.). Pharyngeal teeth spoon-shaped summits 2,3,5 | 5,3,2: or 2,3,3 | 4,3,2 \ 
or with tubercular summits 1,3,4 | 4.3,1, or 2,3,4 | 4,3,2. Dorsal fin situated from before to hardly posterior 
to the commencement of the ventral, with a row of scales along its base : its first few rays are unbranched, 
and either osseous and serrated, or osseous and entire, or cartilaginous, or have the extremities of all pro¬ 
longed into filaments. Anal short, with a scaly base. Caudal also with some scales over its base. Scales 
moderate, cycloid. Lateral line usually continuous, or it may abruptly cease as in the Buntius vittatus, p. 215. 
With four cirri (Barbodes , Bleeker.) 
1. Unbranched dorsal rays osseous , and the last serrated posteriorly. 
PUNTIUS CHEYSOPOMA. 
Baebus cheysopoma, Cuv. & Val. xvi. p. 165, pi. 466. 
Baebus gibbosus, Cuv. & Val. xv. p. 155. 
Systomus cheysopoma, Jerdon , Madras Journal, xv. p. 314. 
Munduttee, Mai. 
B. iii. D. f. P. 15. V. 9. A. f. C. 19. L. 1. 28. L. tr. f. 
Length of head jf, of pectoral of caudal \ } of base of dorsal of base of anal -jlj- of total 
length. Height of head U of body f-, of dorsal jt, of ventral }, of anal of total length. 
Eyes—“Diameter in the immature f, in the adult of length of head, 1^ diameters from end 
of snout, 2 diameters apart. 
Body elongated, a considerable rise from snout to the occiput, from whence to the dorsal it is 
more gradual, and from that fin to the caudal the profile gradually sinks. Abdominal profile is 
as convex as that of the back. 
Snout short, slightly protractile : the posterior extremity of the maxilla extends to beneath 
the anterior margin of the orbit. Preopercle, posterior limb vertical, its angle rounded, its lower 
limb horizontal. Opercle irregularly triangular, its posterior margin convex, its upper short and 
horizontal. Subopercle rather more than one third as high as long. Interopercle 'with a rather 
irregularly lower margin. Upper surface of head smooth, rather convex, and divided from the 
snout by a transverse and moderately deep groove. Nasal cirri ecjual to two-thirds the diameter 
of the orbit in length, and the maxillary cirri rather longer. Nostrils opposite the anterior superior 
angle of the orbit. 
