902 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



2. TACHYSURUS MACULATUS (Thunberg). 



Silurus maculatus Tjiunberg, Yet. Acad. Nya. llandl., XIII, 1792, p. 81, pi. i, 



fig. 1; Japan. 

 Ariiis maculatus Guntiier, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., V, 1864, p. 166. 

 Tachysurus maculatus Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japan, III, April 3, 



1901, p. 45; no locality. 

 Silurus ocellatus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 379 (after 



Thunberg). 

 Arias ocellatus Cvvikr and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XV, 1840, p. 104 



(after Bloch and Schneider). 

 Arius ocellatus Bleeker, Verhandl. Batavia, Genootsch. Kunst. Wetensch., XV, 



1853, pp. 30 and 51. 

 Pbnelodus arius Hamilton-Buchanan, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 170, 376; Bengal. 

 Arius arius Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XV, 1840, p. 102; 



Pondicherry. 

 Arius (jagorides Bh^EKFAi, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXI, Silur., p. 42; East Indies. 

 Arius cJiondrojUerygioidcs Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXI, Silur., p. 44; East 



Indies. 

 Arius angulatus Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXI, Silur., p. 44; East Indies. 

 Arius heekeli Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXI, Silur., p. 44; East Indies. 

 Pseudarius borneensis Bleeker, Atl. Ichthy. Silur., p. 36, pi. xix; Borneo. 



Head 3| to 3i in length; depth i^ to 5; D. I, 7; A., 20 to 22; P. I, 

 10. Head rather broader than high, its greatest width f to f its 

 length; band of intermaxillar}^ teeth is six times as long as broad; 

 teeth on the palate granular, in two separate semiovate patches; max- 

 illary barbels considerably shorter than the head; occipital process 

 granulated, su})triangular, scarcely longer than broad. Dorsal fin 

 higher than body; its spine strong, serrated along both edges, and it 

 is contained 1^ to If in the head; adipose fin rather shorter than dor- 

 sal; pectoral t to | the length of the head, and its spine nearly as 

 long as that of the dorsal fin. Adipose fin with a large black spot. 

 (Giinther.) 



East Indies and China, only known from Japan in the record of 

 Thunberg, which was probabh" made at Miyako Island in the Riukiu 

 archipelago. 



The SN'nonymy aljov^c given is compiled from authors and needs 

 verification. 



{i/uiculatus, spotted.) 



3. PARASILURUS Bleeker. 



Glanis Agassiz, Proc. Amer. Acad., 1856, p. 333 {aristotelin). (Name preoccupied 



by Glanis Gronow, 1854. ) 

 Parasilunis Bleeker, Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk., 1863, p. 114 {asotus). 



Body elongate, the profile of the back almost horizontal. Head 

 depressed and covered with soft skin; eyes anterior and subcutaneous; 

 mouth broad, transverse; barbels 4, two ver}^ long maxillaries and 2 

 short mentals; teeth cardiform or villiform, in broad bands in the 



