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very short nasal barbel. Maxillary barbels very broad, acutely 
tapering behind, the much shorter mandibulary ones before 
corner of mouth; they are slender and flattened as also 
the still shorter mental ones, which are situated before and 
between them. No free orbital margin. Eyes superior. Dorsal 
6-rayed with a strong, pungent spine. Adipose fin above short 
anal and equal to it. Ventrals 6-rayed and originating behind 
dorsal. Pectorals with a flattened, strong, pungent spine. Dorsal 
and pectoral spines as well as the lobes of the deeply forked 
caudal, produced into long filaments. No thoracic adhesive 
apparatus. In the upper jaw a broad crescentic band of 
unequal teeth, the band in the lower jaw much narrower 
and with a series of strong, curved teeth. All the teeth are 
depressible. Palate edentulous. Gillopening wide. Gillmem- 
branes anteriorly united, deeply emarginate, free from isthmus. 
Branchiostegals 12. 
Fig. 105. Bagarius bagarius (Ham. Buch.). < 1/4. 
I. Bagarius bagarius (Ham. Buch.). 
Pimelodus bagarius Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes Ganges, 1822, p. 186, 378. 
Bagarius Yarelli Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, II. 1841, p. 37¢. 
Bagarius Buchanani Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen, XXV. 1853, Nalez. ichth. Ben- 
galen, p. 121. — Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. I Siluri. 1858, p. 212. — Atl. 
Ichth. II. 1862, p. 61. 
Bagarius yarellii Ginther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 183. 
Bagarius Yarrellii Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 495. 
Bagarius lica Volz, Zool. Anz. XXVI. 1903, p. 557. — Zool. Jahrb. Abth. 
Syst. XIX. 1903, p. 391. 
