376 LABYBINTHICl. 



n. Adtilt : stuffed. Mud-fiekls, Eiver Gogia. Purchased of Captain 



Boys. 

 o-q. Adult and half-grown : skins. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's 



Collection. 

 r. Young. Malayan Peninsula. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 s-«. Adult and half-grown. Khasya. Presented by Dr. J. Hooker. 

 V. Half-grown. Siam. From M. Mouhot's Collection. 

 %v. Half-grown. Java. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 X. Half-grown. Philippine Island.s. 

 y. Half-gTown : stuffed. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 

 z, a, ji-y. Adult, half-groAvn, 'and young. 



2. Anabas niacrocephalus. 



Anabas scandens, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiii., Doolh. K. p. 8 (part.). 

 macrocephalus, Bleek. Java, ii. p. 430. 



D. '^. A. :^ . L. lat. 30-31. L. transv. 15. 



The height of the body is contained four times or four times and a 

 third in the total length, the length of the head three times and a 

 half to three times and three -foiu'ths. The prseorbital and the 

 opercles are denticulated ; the teeth of the angle of the operculum 

 and siiboperculum being produced, spine-like. Greenish -olive, with 

 a brown streak from the maxillaiy to the prsEoperculum, and with 

 another to the intei'operculum. Immatiire specimens with darker 

 cross-bands, and with a black spot at the base of the caudal fin.' 

 Two spines of the operculiun form a notch, the membrane of which 

 is black. 



Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Bintang, and Philippine Islands. 



a. Adiilt. Philippine Islands. 



h-c. HaK-grown. From the Haslar Collection. 



This species appears to have the margins of the lamince of the 

 superbranchial organ rather more valanced than A. scandens. 



3. Anabas oUgolepis. 



? Anabas oligolepis, Bleeker, Borneo, viii. p. 161. 



D. l^^ A. -^ . L. lat. 27. L. transv. 15. 



The height of the body is contained three times and a third to 

 three times and a half in the total length, the length of the head 

 three times and three-fourths to four times. The prseorbital and the 

 opercles are denticulated ; the proeoperculum is entire ; the teeth at 

 the angle of the operculum and suboperculum are elongate. Greenish, 

 with two brown streaks running from the orbit to the opercles ; a 

 blackish spot at the root of the caudal. 



? Bandjermassing. Ceylon. China. 



a, b-c. Adult and half-gi'owTi. Point de Galle. Presented by Sir 



A. Smith. 

 d. Many fine specimens. Ceylon. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



