335 
"ls longer than the eye. Yellowish brown, with a silvery hue 
on belly and sides. Fins hyaline, or the distal part of dorsal, 
pectorals, anal and lobes of caudal are darkish. Length about 
140 mm. 
Habitat: South New Guinea (“Varen’-river, a tributary 
of Lorentz-river!). — 
In fresh and brackish water. 
6. Fam. BAGRIDAE. 
Dorsal fin short, with a pungent spine and 6 to 7 soft rays, 
placed anteriorly in advance or partly above the ventrals, 
which have 6 rays. Adipose fin longer or shorter than dorsal, 
always well developed, opposite to the anal which has in 
indo-australian species less than 20 rays. Pectorals lateral, with 
a pungent spine. Caudal forked. Head conical or more or less 
depressed, covered by thick or thin skin or the headshields 
are even naked. Anterior and posterior nostrils wide apart, the 
latter with a barbel. A pair of maxillary, mandibulary and 
mental barbels present. Eyes subcutaneous or with a free orbital 
margin. Mouth transverse or crescentic, at the lower side of 
the snout, the upper jaw being more or less prominent. 
Villiform teeth in the jaws in a band; on the palate in a 
patch or in an uninterrupted semicrescentic band; by exception 
(Bagrichthys) large movable labial teeth in the lower jaw. Gill- 
membranes free from the isthmus, nearly totally separated or 
united. 7—13 branchiostegals. 
Synopsis ot the sen era. 
A, Orbital margin free. No movable labial teeth. Gill- 
Membranesmearhy totally Separated. 5. 36... « s « Macrones p. 336. 
&, Eyes covered by skin. 
I. Lower jaw with large movable labial teeth. Branchial 
membranes united. Teeth on hindborder of dorsal 
SPIRE GILECLEGMUP WANG «6 ses) c. 0) sb 6 ele 8 Bagrichthys p. 345. 
2. No labial teeth. 
a. Gill-membranes totally united. Teeth on hindborder 
of dorsal spine directed upward........... Bagroides p. 347. 
6. Gill-membranes nearly totally separated. Hindborder 
of dorsal spine smooth or with the teeth directed 
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