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and yet its first ray of the pectorals is only sawed posteriorly, and the first ray of the 
dorsals not serrated at all. The Mahratta name is ‘ Itchkeea.’ 
PHRACTOCEPHALUS GoGRA, 
Tab. LXVI. Fig. 1. 
A Phractocephalus, with 4 shortish cirri; the plates of the shoulder elongated into acute, angular, broad 
spines, with a dorsal fin of 8 rays, first ray a bone serrated behind ; pectoral fins of 10 rays, the first 
ray a broad compressed bone serrated on both edges ; anal fin with 13 or 14 rays. 
Subcylindrical, depressed head, remarkably flat and broad, and rounded ; broader 
than any part of the body. A bony plate on each side of the thorax projecting into an 
excessively strong, flat, acute, angular, pointed spine 2ths of the length of the head, but 
its edges are enveloped in the skin of the body. Mouth furnished with 4 cirri, one on 
each side of the upper lip and two on the under jaw, distant from the lip and distant 
from each other. Pectoral fins of 10 or 11 rays, first ray a broad compressed bone, 
serrated on both edges ; dorsal fin of 8 rays, first ray serrated very minutely posteriorly ; 
second dorsal fin an erect fleshy process, arched and projecting into a kind of lobe ; 
ventral fins of 8 rays, situated a little behind a perpendicular let fall from the last dorsal 
ray ; anal fin of 13 or 14 rays, including 4 or 5 minute rays in front of the longest 
ray : tail forked, of 17 rays, besides minute rays on the outside of the longest rays : flesh 
heating. Size of the fish described, 6 inches long ; 15th inch high; width across the 
head 1,;th inch. Found in the Beema river, at Seedataik, and Mota Mola river, at 
Poona. It is a lurking fish, keeps near the ground and in dark places, and has the 
habits of a Cottus. 
In different parts of the country it is known by the Mahratta names of ‘ Gograh,’ 
‘ Kheerurh,’ and ‘ Puttur Chattah.’ 
Genus Pimetopus, Lacepéde. 
PimMELopUS SEENGTEE. 
Tab. LXVI. Fig. 2. 
A Pimelodus, with the caudal fin divided into 2 unequal sharpish lobes, and having 8 cirri, 2 of which 
reach to the tail-fin, and 4 to the end of the head, and 2 are shorter than the head ; the dorsal fin high 
and without spine, of 9 rays, 12 rays in the anal fin; the second dorsal adipose, and extending from 
the termination of the first dorsal to near the tail. 
Mouth furnished with 8 cirri, 2 six inches long on each side of the upper lip, and 
. turning backwards, 2 short capillary at the nostrils, and 4 on the under lip, arranged 
two and two, as long as the head. First dorsal fin of 8 rays—rays strong and large, 
first ray bony ; second dorsal fin an erect membrane, commencing at the termination 
of the first dorsal fin, and continuing 24 inches, in an arched form, low before and high 
behind, to the tail; pectoral fins of 10 rays, first ray a strong bone, strongly serrated 
posteriorly ; ventral fins of 6 rays, situated on a perpendicular let fall from the last 
