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Height 5, equal to breadth, 6. 3 in length with caudal. 

 Head 4. 5, 5. 7 in length with caudal. Eye 6. 4, 3 times in inter- 

 orbital space, situated in the third fourth of the head. Mouth- 

 opening curved, ^/g of the greatest breadth of the head. Upper 

 lip concealed below the frontborder of the snout. Before the 

 cleft of the mouth 4 subequal barbels, about half the diameter 

 of the eye. Between the two middle ones three great papils. 

 At the corner of the mouth a triangular fleshy fold, with a 

 rudiment of a barbel, looking like a great papil. Lower lip 

 with 9 great papils, situated in a curved line. Origin of dorsal 

 behind middle of length. Anal, when depressed, nearly reaches 

 the caudal, its origin far remote from end of ventrals. Caudal 

 slightly emarginate, lobes pointed, the lower the longer, longer 

 than head. Yellowish, head olivaceous, marmorated, upperside 

 otherwise with numerous irregular, transverse, brown bands. 

 Fins yellowish, caudal with irregular brown transverse bands. 

 Anterior rays of ventrals and pectorals olivaceous. Length of 

 single specimen known 6^ mm. [Type of the species in the 

 Leyden Museum seen by us]. 



No men indig. : Sekelut. 



Habitat: Borneo, river Howong! 



2. Glaniopsis Boulenger. 



(BOULENGER, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) IV. 1899, p. 228). 



Head and anterior part of body depressed ; snout scarcely 

 projecting beyond the mouth, which is moderately large. Eyes 

 nearly superior, whithout free orbital margin. Five pairs of 

 barbels — two in front of the snout, two at the angle of the 

 mouth, and one between the two nasal openings. Mouth as in 

 Homaloptera ; gillopenings narrow. Body covered with small 

 scales, head naked ; lateral line present. Dorsal fin short, further 

 back than base of ventrals; anal short; pectoral and ventral 

 fins horizontal, manyrayed, the outer rays simple. 



Distribution: The single species is only known from Borneo. 



I. Glaniopsis hanitschi Blgr. 



Glaniopsis Hanitschi Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) IV. 1899, p. 228. 



D. 2. 6; A. 2. 5; P. I. 12; V. 2. 7. 



Depth of body 672 times in total length, length of head 

 5 to 5 '/2 times. Head scarcely longer than broad ; snout rounded ; 



