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indistinct. I am unable on comparison with Sumatran examples to 

 find any differences except such as may be due to individual variation. 

 The Borneo examples, which maybe considered topot^qoical of kuken- 

 thali, seem to leave little chance for doubt that Dr. Steindachner's ex- 

 ample is simply the adult. All my Sumatran examples show at least 

 traces of the interdorsal spinous knobs or processes, and their color- 

 ation evidently was somewhat purplish-tinted, according to my 

 original notes, when first received in arrack. 

 24. Akysis baramensis sp- nov. 



Head 3^; depth 5*; D. i, I, 5; A. ii, 6, ii; P. I, 5, ii; V. i, 5; width 



Fig. 4. — Akysis baramensis Fowler. 



of head 1^ in its length; depth of head If; width of mouth 2; length of 

 snout 2|; interorl^ital space 3; length of depressed dorsal 1^: of lower 

 caudal lobe 1; of pectoral 1^; ventral 1§; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2f . 



Body elongate, slender, depressed, and greatest depth about oppo- 

 site middle of depressed pectoral. Caudal peduncle compressed, its 

 least depth about If in its length from posterior base of adipose dorsal 

 fin. 



Head broad, depressed, evenly convex above, and lower portion 

 more or less flattened. Breast flattened. Snout produced, broad and 



