570 BULLETIN 188, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 TAENIOIDES NIGRIMAKGINATUS Hora 



Taenioides nigrvmarginatus Hora, 1924a, p. 496, fig. 8 ( Singora ) . 



Hora described this species from four specimens, the largest 16.5 

 and 23.1 cm. long, obtained by Dr. Annandale at Singora, in 1916. 

 This is the only local member of the genus having scales (on posterior 

 third of body). This feature, with the black vertical fins, makes the 

 species easily identifiable. 



TAENIOIDES CIRRATUS (BIyth) 



Amblyopus cirratus Blyth, 1860b, p. 147 (locality unknown "but probably ob- 

 tained in the Calcutta bazaar"). 

 Taenioides cirratus H. M. Smith, 1931d, p. 189 (Meklong). 



'''First made known by Blyth from the Hooghli Kiver, India, this 

 fish has been found to range through the East Indies to the Philip- 

 pines. It was recorded from Thailand in 1931 and does not appear to 

 have been reported there since. The unique specimen was taken in 

 October 1929 in a canal off the Meklong and had a rather interesting 

 history. The capture of an "electric fish" had been announced in a 

 local newspaper and the creature was exhibited alive in Rajaburi, 

 where it attracted considerable attention because of its reputed electric 

 properties. It had been caught on a muddy bank by a woman using a 

 line, and had been seen in a spirited fight with a snake {Oylindrophis 

 'rufus), which was subsequently found dead. The color in life was a 

 pale yellow with a series of 21 small roundish yellowish brown spots 

 extending along the side from under the first dorsal spine to the base 

 of the caudal fin; the fins were of the same color as the body except 

 the caudal, which was a yellowish brown with a blackish tip. Dorsal 

 rays VI,I,45 ; anal rays 1,39 to 1,41. Length over all 38 cm., length 

 to base of caudal fin 34.25 cm.; depth at origin of dorsal fin 2.2 cm. 

 The greatest length recorded by Day for this fish in India is 25 cm., 

 and by Herre in the Philippines is 18.2 cm. The Thai example may 

 represent about the maximum size attained. It was impossible to 

 obtain this fish for preservation, owing to the prohibitive price placed 

 on it by the owner who, however, was willing to have it examined 

 and handled with the cautionary information that it might impart 

 a dangerous electric shock. 



Genus BRACHYAMBLYOPUS Bleeker 



BracJiyamUyopus Bleekeb (453), Arch. N6erl, Sci. Nat., vol. 9, p. 329, 1874. 

 (Type, AtnUyopus tracTiysoma Bleeker.) 



The introduction of the generic name Brachy amblyopus was made 

 by Bleeker in 1874 as a substitute for Amblyopus of Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes (1837), the latter name being a synonym for Taemoides 



