FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 765 



Bagrus MUneatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, p. 434, 1839 (type 



locality : Poudicherry ; Rangoon ) . 

 Bagrus netuma Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, p. 438, pi. 417, 1839 



(type locality: Pondicherry). 

 Netuma netuma Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 175, fig. (teeth and casque), 1865. 

 Arius nasntiis Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 15, p. GO, 1S40 (type locality: 



Malabar; Red Sea). 

 Catastoma nasutum (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



A'ol. 15, p. 60, 1S40 (Java) (name in text). — Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. 



N^erland., vol. 2, p. 28, 1862 (name in synonymy). 

 Netuma vasuta Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 2, pi. (13), 61, 1862. — 



Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26 (1906), p. 8, 1907 (Cavite). 

 Bagrus rhodonotus Bleeker, Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Nederl.-Indie, vol. 3, pt. 2, 



p. 157, 1846 (type locality: Batavia). 

 Bagrus carchariorlii/nchos Bleekek, Nat. Geneesk. Arch Nederl.-Indie, vol. 3, 



pt. 2, p. 291, 1846 (type locality: Batavia). 

 Sarcogcnys rostratus (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. 



N(5erland., vol. 2, p. 28, 1862 (name in synonymy). 

 Arius andamanensis Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, p. 699 (type locality : 



Andaman Islands). 

 Ariodes aeneus Saxtvage, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, ser. 7, vol. 7, p. 156, 1883 



(type locality: "He Raffles: Voyage de la Zelee"). 

 Netuma osakae Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, p. 157, pi. 9, 



fig. 1, 1925 (type locality: Japan). 



Depth 434 to 5 ; head 3 to 31/5, width 1% to 1% its length. Snout 

 2% to 2% in head; eye 414 to 7%, li/o to 2 in snout, 2 to 3 in inter- 

 orbital ; mouth width 2^^ to 2% in head, widely crescentic ; lips with 

 thick folds at mouth corners; maxillary barbel reaches beyond eye 

 or to gill opening, outer mental behind hind eye edge, inner mental 

 to eye or slightly beyond; teeth fine in rather broad bands in jaws; 

 teeth on palate in 2 large, triangular patches, base of each triangle 

 with 2 more or less rounded, small, close-set patches; preorbital groove 

 extends little beyond front eye, edge; median fontanel reaches base 

 of occipital process, latter forming complete bridge to dorsal. Gill 

 rakers 8 or 9, short, conic, thick. 



Skin smooth. Sides of head above, occipital bridge, dorsal shield 

 and humeral shield striate or granulated. 



D. I, 7, spine ly^ to 1% in head, granulated in front and hind edges 

 serrate; A. vi, 11 or 12, first branched ray 3% to 3%; lower caudal 

 lobe 1 to 1%; least depth of caudal peduncle 314 ; pectoral ll^ to 

 1%; ventral 21/3 to 2%. 



Largely silvery, grayish above. Adipose fin with large blackish 

 brown blotch. 



Ked Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, India, Andamans, Burma, Singapore, 

 East Indies, Philippines, China, Japan, North Australia, Queensland, 

 New South Wales, Polynesia. 



11943. Alimango Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. Length, 52 mm. 

 5515. Malabon market, August 8, 1908. Length, 59 mm. 



