544 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



NOTOPTERUS CHITALA (Buchanan-Hamilton) 



Mystus chitala Buchanan-Hamllton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 236, 382, 1822 (type 

 locality: Bengal and Bebar Rivers). — Gkay, Illustr. Indian Zool., Hard 

 wicke, vol. 1, pi. 91, fig. 1, 1832 (plate missing in Academy copy). 



Notopterns chitala Gilvy, Zool. Misc., p. 16, 1831 (Indian Seas). — Bleekee, Ver- 

 slag. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 16, p. 356, 1864 (Siam) ; Nederland. 

 Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 176, 1865 ; Atlas Iclith. Ind. N^erland., vol. 6, p. 

 147, pi. (16)274, fig. 2, pi. (17)275, fig. 2, 1866-72 (Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Bengal). — Guntheb, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 479, 1868 (East India, 

 Siam, types of Notopterus lopis and Notopterns hypselonotus) . — MarteiNs, 

 Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 405, 1876 (Sintang in Borneo). — Day, 

 Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 654, pi. 159, fig. 5, 1878 (Sind, Lower Bengal, 

 Orissa, Assara, Burma, Siam). — Duncker, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 

 vol. 21, p. 187, 1904 (Kuala Lipis). — Popta, Notes Leyden Mus., vol. 27, 

 p. 209, 1906 (Upper Mahakam, Borneo). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1911, p. 205 (without locality). — Weber and Beaufort, Fishes 

 Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 10, fig. 6, 1913 (Sahilau, Djambi, 

 Nias, Djonkong). — Hora, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, No. 2, p. 175, 

 1923 (Nontaburi).— ViPULYA, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 227, 

 1923 (Bangkok). — Chabanatjd, Service Oceanogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 1' 

 Note, p. 7, 1926 (Cambodia; Cochinchina). — T'irant, Service Oceanogr. 

 Peches Indo-Chine, 6* Note, p. 124, 1929 (Cochinchina). — Borodin, Bull. 

 Vanderbilt Marine Mus., vol. 1, art. 2, p. 42, 1930 (Saigon). — Fowler, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 87, p. 90, 1935 (Bangkok; Paknam).— 

 Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 15, livr. 3, p. 220, 1936 (Pontianak ; middle 

 course of Kapuas R., Borneo). — Suvatti, Index Fish. Siam, p. 18, 1937 

 (Bung Baraphet; Samrong Canal; Ban Pho; Suphanburi River). — Herre 

 and Myees, Rafiles Mus. Bull., No. 13, p. 14, 1937 (Chandra Dam, Perak).— 

 Fowler, List Fish. Malaya, p. 23, 1938 (reference). 



Notopterus ornatus Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 16, 1831 (type locality: Indian Seas). 



Notopterus nmculatus Valenciennes, Voy. Ind. Orient. Belanger, Zool., p. 396, 

 pi. 5, fig. 2, 1834 (type locality: India). 



Notopterus buchanani Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 108, 1848 (type 

 locality: Calcutta, Bengal). 



Notopterus lopis Bleeicer, Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Nederl.-Indi(i, vol. 2, p. 510, 1S45 

 (type locality: Batavia) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, pi. (17) 275, 

 fig. 2, 1866-72. 



Notopterus hypselonotus Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Chiroc), vol. 24, 

 p. 27, 1852 (type locality: Mussi River, Palembang, Sumatra). — Blexiker, 

 Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, pi. (16) 274, fig. 2, 1866-72. 



Depth 4; head 4%. Snout 7 in head; eye 7%, trifle before first 

 fifth in head, slightly less than snout ; maxillary reaches well behind 

 eye, expansion 1% in eye, length 2% in head; teeth uniserial, along 

 front of each jaw edge; row of palatine teeth, little enlarged in front; 

 interorbital 9%, little convex ; lower preopercle edge minutely serrate. 



Scales about 135 ? tubular (damaged) in lateral line; scales about 

 200 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 more on latter; 21 above, 37 

 below, about 165 predorsal scales. Scales cycloid, crowded and 



