FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 773 



Osteogeneiosus ingluvies Bleekee, Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Neder.-Indie, vol. 3, pt. 



2, p. 174, 1846 (type locality: Batavia). 

 Osteogeneiosus gracilis Bleeker, Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Neder.-Indie, vol. 3, pt. 2, 



p. 175, 1846 (type locality: Batavia). 

 Osteogeneiosus hlochli Bleeker, Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Neder.-Indie, vol. 3, pt. 2, 



p. 175, 1846 (t.vpe locality: Batavia). 

 Osteogeneiosus vaJenciennesi Bleeker, Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Neder.-Iudie, vol. 3, 



pt. 2, p. 175, 1846 (type locality: Batavia); Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland. 



vol. 2, p. 46, pi. (15) 63, 1862 (Java, Banka). 

 Osteogeniosus valenciennesii Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 5, p. 181, 1864 



(type; Pinang). — Duncker, Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, 1903, 



p. 174, 1904 (compiled). 

 Osteogeniosus vaJenciennesi Vinciguekra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, vol. 



16, p. 181, 1880 (Borneo) ; ser. 3, vol. 10, p. 608, 1921-26 (Sarawak). 

 Osteogeneiosus cantoris Bleekee, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), vol. 25, 



pp. 120, 130, 582, 1853 (type locality: Calcutta, in River Hooghly). — Blyth, 



Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, p. 286, 1858. 



Depth 44^ to 51/5; head 334 to 3%, width II/3. Snout 2% to 3 in 

 head ; eye 6i^ to 6%, rather low and hiteral, 23/5 to 22^/3 in snout, Z% 

 to 4% in interorbital ; mouth width 2l^ in head ; maxillary barbel to 

 middle of pectoral spine; broad band of villiform teeth in each jaw, 

 of about 7 irregular rows ; on palate 2 broad semioval areas of obtuse 

 low teeth; nostrils large, together, posterior little larger, both near 

 snout end laterally; interorbital 1% to 1% in head, elevated con- 

 vexly; median fontanel wide, not reaching occipital buckler, which 

 twice wide at base as long and rugose striate, bony bridge complete 

 to dorsal. Gill rakers 2 + 7, lanceolate, slender, 1% in gill filaments 

 or 2 in eye. 



Skin smooth. Lateral line complete and median laterally. 



D. I, 7, with front and hind edges of spine antrorsely serrate, first 

 ray V/q to 1% in head; adipose fin large, 2; A. iv or v, 16, i, first 

 branched ray 1% to 2; caudal IV5, forked; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 3 to 31/2 ; pectoral 11/2 to 1% ', ventral 1% to 2. 



Back and head above nearly flax-flower blue, below becoming pearl 

 blue to white. Sides of head and body with obscure gray dots. Iris 

 pale gray. Dorsal terminally gray, whitish basally. Adipose fin 

 whitish, with gray above. Caudal pale to whitish, with gray above 

 and below. Anal and paired fins whitish. Barbels pale. 



Seychelles, India, Burma, Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, East Indies. 



2 examples. A.N.S.P. Bombay, India. Prof. F. Hallberg. 1925. Length, 158- 

 180 mm. 



Genus HEMIPIMELODUS Bleeker 



HemipimeJodns Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr., vol. 1, Siluri, p. 236, 1858. 



(Type, Pimelodus bornceusis Bleeker, designated by Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. 



Dierk., vol. 1, p. 92, 1863.) 

 Pachyula Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 23, p. 33, 1898. (Type, 



Heniipimelodus crassilabris Ramsay and Ogilby.) 



