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below them a strong bifid suborbital spine. Head rounded; 

 snout rather long, bluntly rounded ; mouth small inferior with 

 lobate lips. Eight barbels, two nasal ones and six round the 

 mouth. Scales minute, also present below eye, on praeoperculum 

 and on upper half of the operculum. Dorsal short, far backward, 

 its last ray above first ray of anal. Pectorals with the second 

 ray slightly elongate, but conspicuously thickened. Ventrals very 

 small, about thrice nearer to anus than to base of pectorals. 

 Caudal slightly emarginate. Gillopenings subvertical, ending 

 near base of pectorals. 



Distribution: that of the single species known. 



I. Eucirrhichtys doriae Perugia. 



Eiicirrhichthys Doriae Perugia, Ann. Mus. civ, stor. nat. Genova (2) XII. 1892, 

 p. 1009. 



D. 7; A. 6; P. 6; V. 6. 



Height about 20 times in length with caudal, head nearly 

 10 times in that length. Eye very small, situated in the second 

 third of the head. Barbels nearly equal in length with that of 



Fig. 10. Eiicirrhichthys doriae Perugia X I Vs- 

 Head and anterior part of body magnified S'/o times. 



snout. Colour of alcohol-specimens uniform. Length 90 mm. 

 [A cotype from the Museum of Genova seen by us]. 

 Habitat: Borneo (Sarawak!). 



4. Lepidocephalus Bleeker. 



{Lepidocephalus B\JE.^K^K^ Nat. Tijdschr, Ned. Indie XVI. 1858— 1859, p. 303. — 

 Atl. Ichth. III. 1863, p. 12; Lcpidocephalichthys Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. III. 

 1863, p. 12). 



