364 CTPRINID^B. 



tical bars towards tne back. Dorsal and caudal fins with transverse 

 rows of blackish dots. 

 Assam and Bengal. 



a. Not in good state. Presented by Lieut. -Col. Playfair. 



101. LEPIDOCEPHALICHTHYS. 



Lepidocephalichthys, Sleek. Atl. Ichth/ol. p. 12. 

 Platacanthus, Day, Proc, Zool. Soc. 18G5, p. 296. 



Body slightly compressed, oblong, back not arched. A small, 

 erectile, bifid, suborbital spine below the eye. Eight barbels, tAVO 

 of them belonging to the mandible. Dorsal fin inserted opposite, or 

 nearly opposite, to ventrals ; caudal truncate. Air-bladder enclosed 

 in a boi.y capsule. 



East Indies. 



This genus is very closely allied to Cob'ttls. The air-bladder, the 

 presence of which is denied by Bleeker and Day, is, on the contrary, 

 comparatively very large. 



1. Lepidocephalichthys hasseltii. 



Cobitis hasseltii, Cuv. 8f Veil, xviii. p. 74 ; Bleek. Nat. Tydschr. Ned. 



Ind. xiii. p. 365. 

 Lepidocephalus hasseltii, Bleek. Prodr. Cypr. p. 71. 

 Lepidocephalichthys hasseltii, Bleek. Atl. Ichthyol. Cypr. p. 13, tab. 2. 



tig. 2. 



D. 9. A. 7. V. 7. 



The origin of the dorsal fin is opposite to the base of the inner ven- 

 tral ray, and somewhat nearer to the root of the caudal than to the 

 end of the snout. Caudal fin truncate. Rather irregularly spotted 

 and dotted with brown. Sometimes a blackish spot superiorly on 

 the base of the caudal. 



Java. 

 a. Adult. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



2. Lepidocephalichthys thermalis. 



Cobitis thermalis, Cuv. 8f Val. xviii. p. 78. 



Lepidocephalichthys thermalis, Bleek. in Verh. Holland. 3Iaatsch. 



Haarlem, 1804, Cyprin. &f Cubit. Ceyl. p. 6, tab. 1. tig. 1. 

 Platacanthus agrensis, Day, I. c. ; or Fish. Malabar, p. 204, pi. 14. 

 tig. 2 (bad). 



D. 9. A. 7. V. 7. 

 The origin of the dorsal fin is in advance of the root of the ven- 

 trals, and nearer to the root of the caudal than to the end of the 

 snout. Caudal fin truncate, with the corners pointed. Scales con- 

 spicuous. A series of about twelve round brown spots along the 

 lateral line ; back mottled with brown. A black white-edged 

 ocollus superiorly at the base of the caudal. Dorsal rays with black 



