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cavity in the upper jaw. A pair of long maxillary barbels. 

 Eye with a free orbital margin. Short dorsal, without strong 

 spines, totally opposite to anal, which is much longer than 

 dorsal and has 12 — 18 rays. Ventrals inserted slightly above 

 the abdominal profile, with 6 branched rays, separated by one 

 scale from the lateral line. Pectorals longer than head. Caudal 

 deeply emarginate. Scales rather large, of about equal size, 

 the nuchal ones commencing far behind eye. Lateral line 

 abruptly bent downwards behind the pectoral fin and running 

 close to the lower profile of the body and separated from it 

 by 2 scales. Pseudobranchiae present. Gillrakers short. Pharyn- 

 geal teeth hooked, in two series 5.4 — 4.5. Branchial opening 

 reaching below eye. 



Distribution: Philippines and Borneo. 



Key to the i n do-austral i a n species. 



1. Height 3I/4 to nearly 3^/4; origin of dorsal twice as 



far from end of snout as from base of caudal. . . . N. cverelti p. 46. 



2. Height s"/?— 4V6 5 origin of dorsal less than twice 



as far from end of snout as from base of caudal . . N. steiitiiacliiicri p 47. 



I. Nematabramis everetti Blgr. 



Neinatahraniis Evcrelti Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) XIII. 1S94, p. 250. 



6', 



D. 2.8; A. 3.16; P. 1. 10; V. 1.5; L.l. 35— 37; L. tr.T (at 



I V 

 origin of dorsal). 



Height 3'/4 to nearly 3^/^ about 4.6 in length with caudal ; head 

 4.3, 5.4 in length with caudal. Eye 3.6, shorter than snout and 

 than interorbital space. Barbels i '/j to 2 as long as head. Origin of 

 dorsal above the 20th scale of lateral line, separated by 24 scales 

 from occiput, twice as far from end of snout as from base of 

 caudal. Height of dorsal slightly more than length of head 

 without snout. Origin of anal below i8th scale of lateral line, 

 its height somewhat more than that of dorsal. Ventrals a little 

 nearer to end of snout than to base of caudal. Pectorals I'/s 

 as long as head, extending beyond base of ventrals. Least 

 height of caudal peduncle more than twice in length of head 

 and 1.7 in its own length, surrounded by 12 scales. Colour 

 pale, with a silvery lateral stripe. Length 1 10 mm. [Type of 

 the species in the British Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Borneo (Bongon and Merabeh, Baram River, 

 Sarawak !). 



