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postorbital part of head, the osseous part of its strong, flattened 
spine, which is denticulated along its hindborder, one eye- 
diameter shorter. Base of dorsal nearly equal to its distance 
from the adipose fin, the base of which is much longer than 
anal or dorsal. Ventrals far distant from anal, originating 
behind dorsal or below its last ray, a little shorter than 
pectorals, which are very broad and half as long as head. 
The osseous part of their strong, flat spine has the hindborder 
denticulated, much shorter than half head and much shorter 
than dorsal spine. Caudal bifurcated, the lobes pointed, the 
upper one the longer. Teeth in broad bands, in the upper 
jaw slightly curved, in the lower jaw strongly so, those on the 
palate in a horse-shoe like band, as broad as the maxillary one. 
Violet, underside of head, belly, hindborder of operculum, 
upperborder of orbit, an interorbital patch, whitish. A yellowish 
border at upper and lower margin of caudal, at anterior margin 
of adipose fin and anal and ventrals. Length 450 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Hinur (Sundan.), Ikan Djatisa (Djambi). 
Habitat: Java (river Tjitarum); Sumatra (river Batang Hari!). 
In rivers. 
8. Macrones gulio (Ham. Buch.). 
Pimelodus gulio Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, p. 201. 
Bagrus albilabris Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839, p. 416. 
Bagrus fuscus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839, p. 417. 
Bagrus gulio Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839, p. 418. 
Bagrus birmannus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839, p. 419. 
Bagrus abbreviatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839, p. 420. 
Bagrus gulioides Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indié, III (2). 1846, p. 152. 
Lagrus melas Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indié, III (2). 1846, p. 152. 
Bagrus Schlegelii Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indié, ITI (2). 1846, p. 153. 
Bagrus rhodopierygius Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indié, HI (2). 1846, 
p- 153; 
Bagrus abbreviatus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1236. 
Bagrus gulio Bleeker, Ichth, Arch. Ind, Prodr. I. Siluri, 1858, p. 163. 
Aspidobagrus gulio Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. II. 1862, p. 60. 
Macrones gulio Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 79. 
Macrones gulio Kner, Novara-Exp. Fische, 1865—1867, p. 307. 
Macrones gulio Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 445. 
iB. 9; D. a. 7 AS Mets Beate 5—9Q; V.ibs 
Elongate, rather robust. Height 4'/,—4'/,, head 3'/,—37/s. 
Greatest width of head somewhat more than head without 
snout. Dorsal profile before dorsal sloping downwards in a 
