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1. Glyptosternum platypogon (C. V.) [Fig. 104]. 
Pimelodus platypogon Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XV. 1840, p. 152. 
Pimelodus cyanochloros Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen, XXI. I. 1847, Nieuwe Bijdr. 
Sil. Java p. II. 
Glyptothorax platypogon Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. II. 1862, p. 63. 
Glyptosternum platypogon Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 187. 
Glyptosternum Kitkenthali Steindachner, Abh. Senckenb. Nat. Gesell. XXV. 
1901, p. 448 1). 
Glyptothorax platypogon Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. (2) LVIL. 1905, p. 470. 
Glyptosternum platypogon Popta, Notes Leyden Mus. XXVII. 1906, p. 79. 
Fig. 104. Glyptosternum platypogon (C. V.). The figure of the anterior part, 
seen from below, shows the thoracic adhesive apparatus. nat. size. 
B. 89; Dei. 632A. 4. 7-05 Pt, 4 —TO; Vestas: 
Height 5—5?/,, head 3'/,—4'/,, eye 8—11. Snout half as 
long as head or a little shorter, interorbital space nearly as 
long as the distance of the anterior nostril from the eye, 
nasal barbel equal to ?/, of lastnamed distance. Maxillary 
barbels extending on the pectorals, mandibulary ones to the end 
of the head, mental ones considerably shorter. Occipital process 
about twice as long as broad. Dorsal about as high as head 
without snout, in smaller specimens higher; its spine in the 
first case longer, in the second case much longer than half 
of the head. Distance of dorsal to adipose fin, according to 
size, more or less than twice the length of lastnamed fin. 
Anal lower than dorsal. Ventrals rounded, equalling dorsal 
1) Glyptosternum Kitikenthali Steindachner, from Baram river, Borneo, is 
probably an exeedingly large specimen (267 mm.) of G. platypfogon. See also 
Fowler l.s. c. 
