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The base of the caudal is oil-green, the middle parts crimson, and the hinder edge: blackish- 
green. The lips are orpiment-orange. Length of the figure 164 inches. iA 
Hab. Canton (Reeves). No specimen. 
Inthe ‘Description of Animals,’ &c., which we have repeatedly quoted, there is a sketch 
(fig. 162) of a Siluroid with a short adipose fin and long anal, which I should have referred to 
B. bouderius, but for the shortness and number of the barbels, which are stated in the text to 
be only four; and only two are shown in the drawing, the maxillary one, which is the 
longest, being shorter than the head, and the submandibular one still smaller. _ The nostrils 
are shown without cirrhi, and the belly is more prominent than that of Reeves’s bouderius. In 
the text (p. 191) the head is said to be “naked and somewhat depressed, the body compressed, 
smooth and gray. Breast prominent. Ventral in middle of the abdomen. The rays B. 14; 
D. 8; A.30; C.28; P.13; V.6. Length 20 inches.” 
Hab. Canton river. 
? BAGRUS VACHELLI, Richardson. Rad. D. 1|7; A. 23; C.17%; P.1/8; 
V.6; Cirrhi 8. 
A specimen of this fish exists in the collection of the Cambridge Philosophical Institution, 
to which it was presented by the Rev. G. Vachell. In the form of the adipose fin and general 
outline it resembles Mr. Reeves’s drawing 203, which is described above under the appellation 
of Bagrus? bouderius, but the anal fin is not so extensive. In the hasty record I made of its 
characters, I unfortunately omitted to note the exact nature of the dental plates on the roof 
of the mouth, having merely written that the teeth are disposed in broad, close shorn villiform 
plates ; so there remains an uncertainty as to the genus which cannot be cleared up without 
a re-examination of the spedimen. The mouth is small, and the under jaw is shorter than the 
snout, which is round. The maxillary barbels are as long as the head and larger than the 
others; the interior submandibular pair equal the nasal ones, and are shorter than the exte- 
rior submandibular ones. They are all slender. The dorsal spine is smooth in front, but is 
armed with recurved teeth behind. The pectoral spine is also smooth in front, but it is 
strongly toothed behind. Many short rays are incumbent on the base of the caudal, above 
and below. Three front rays of the anal are short and graduated, and the last dorsal ray is 
divided to the base. The specimen is five inches long. In the number of the anal rays this 
specimen nearly agrees with Arius ocellatus introduced below. 
Hab. Canton. 
Arius FALCARIUS, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. p. 134. pl. 62. f. '7-9. 
Icon. Reeves, 101 ; Hardw. Malac.184. Chinese name, Léen yu, “ Sickle 
fish” (Reeves, Birch); Zim wu (Bridgem. Chrest. 193). Length of draw- 
ing 103 inches. 
Hab. Canton. Spec. Brit. Mus. 
ARIUS SINENSIS, C. et V. xv. p. 72. 
Hab. “ Touraine” (Hist. des Poiss.). 
Arius ocEvLATus, BI. Schn. (Silurus), 378; C. et V. xv. p. 104. Stlurus 
maculatus, Thunb. Act. Stockh. 1792. pl. 1. f. 1 et 2. 
The only one of Mr. Reeves’s drawings which has anything like an eyed spot on the adi- 
pose fin is the one described above as the Bagrus? crinalis ; but this is scarcely a distinguish- 
ing mark, as many of the Siluride have the adipose more or less broadly edged with black. 
Hab. Japan. 
? GALEICHTHYs STANNEUS, Richardson. Icon. Reeves, 238 ; Hardw. Malac. 
177. Chinese name, Seth yu, “Tin fish” (Birch); Seth yu, “ Tin fish” 
(Reeves). Seih means also the gingling ornaments of a horse. 
I have referred this fignre to Galeichthys on account of its resemblance to G. feliceps, C. 
et V. pl. 424, but it may nevertheless be a Pimelodus. The head seems to be quite smooth 
above, with less appearance of a casque than in the figure of feliceps above-quoted. The gra- 
nulations of a narrow interparietal process and a small crutch at the base of the dorsal spine 
are however shown. The head is wide and depressed, with a rounded snout, and forms about 
one-fourth of the total length of the fish. The height of the body is equal to rather more 
than a fifth of the length. The nasal orifices are round without either valves or barbels. 
The maxillary barbels are shorter than the head, but are longer than the exterior subman- 
