376 LABYBINTHirr. 



n. Adiilt : stuffed. Mud-fields, River 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-u. Adult and half-grown. Khasya. Presented by Dr. J. Hooker, 

 V. Half-grown. 8iam. From M. Mouhot's Collection. 

 IV. Half-grown. Java. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 X. Half-grown. Philippine Islands. 

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

 z, a, /d-y. Adult, half-grown, and yoimg. 



2. Anabas macrocephalus. 



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

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



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



* 10— o 10— y 



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-fourths. The praeorbital and the 

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

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

 a brown streak from the maxillary to the praeoperculum, and with 

 another to the interoperculum. Immature specimens with darker 

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

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

 is black. 



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



a. Adult. Philippine Islands. 



h-c. Half-groAvn. From the Haslar Collection. 



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

 superbranchial organ rather more valanced than A. scandens. 



3. Anabas oligolepis. 



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



D. i-^«. A. ^ . L. lat. 27. L. transv. 15. 



8 9 



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 prajorbital and the 

 opercles ai'e denticulated ; the prceoperculum 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 sfKit at the root of tlie caudal. 



? Bandjermassing. Ceylon. China, 



a, b-c. Adult and half-gi-own. Point de Gallc. Presented by Sir 



A. Smith. 

 (I. Many fine specimens. Ceylon. Purchased of Mr. Cuming. 



