﻿eye in the middle of the length of the head, its diameter 5 

 times in length of head, 2^1^ in interorbital width; barbels 

 subequal in length, twice as long as diameter of eye. Dorsal 

 commencing a little behind base of ventrals, situated at equal 

 distance from the end of the snout and the end of the caudal. 

 Pectorals as long as head, terminating at a considerable distance 

 from the ventrals. Caudal as long as head, scarcely emarginate. 

 Caudal peduncle as long as deep. Scales extremely small, 



Fig. 2. Glatiiopsis hanitschi Blgr., nat. size. 

 (After R. Hanitsch. Roy. Asiat. Soc., Straits Branch. XXXIV. 1900, pi. II). 



smooth; lat. line 120 — 125. Yellowish brown above, with trans- 

 verse dark brown spots or interrupted cross-bands; head dark 

 olive-brown above; lower parts whitish; dorsal and caudal 

 greyish, the latter blackish at the base; pectorals greyish 

 olive above, white beneath; ventrals and anal white; a black 

 spot at base of ventrals. Total length 93 mm. [The type of 

 the species in the British Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Mount Kina Balu, in the Kadamaian River, at 

 an altitude of 2100 feet. 



A female contains ripe ova of large size, 2 mm. in diameter. 



3. Homaloptera van Hasselt. 



(van Hasselt, Algem. Konst- en Letterbode 1823, II. p. 130). 



Head and anterior part of body depressed. Snout rounded, 

 depressed. Eyes high, nearly superior, with a free orbital margin. 

 Anterior and posterior nostrils separated by a membrane. 



