3i; 



3. Ophiocephalus striatus Bl. 



Opliiocephaliis str'iatiis Bloch, Ausl. Fische VII. 1793, p. 141, tab. 359. 



Ophiocephalus lurahl Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Polssons III. 1802, p. 551. 



Ophiocephalus wrahl Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, p. 60. 



Ophiocephalus chena Hamilton Buchanan, ibid. p. 62. 



Ophicephalus stiialus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons VII. l83i,p. 417. 



Ophicephaltis planiccps Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 425. 



Ophicephalus sowarah Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie II. (3) 1845, p. 519. 



Ophicephalus planiccps Bleeker, I.e. 



Ophicephalus striatus Bleeker, Verh, Bat. Gen. XXIII. 1850, Doolh. kieuw. p, 13. 



Ophiocephalus striatus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XVIII. 1850, p. 1074. 



} Ophiocephalus cyanospilos Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie IV. 1853, p. 256. 



Ophiocephalus striatus Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 — 1861, p. 474. 



Ophiocephalus striatus Kner, Novara-Exp.' Fische 1865 — 1867, p. 234. 



Ophiocephalus vagus Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin (1868) 1869, p. 260. 



Ophiocephalus striatus Bleeker, Atl. ichth. IX. 1877, tab. 399, Fig. i. — • Verh, 



Akad. Amsterdam XIX. 1879, Poissons pharyng. labyr. p. 42. 

 ? Ophiocephalus cyanospilus Bleeker. Atl. ichth. IX. 1877, tab. 397, 6g. 2. — I.e. p. 45. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) II. 1885, p. 89. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 366. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) IX. 1890, p. 184. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Steindachner, Ann. K. K. Naturh. Hofmus. XI. 1896, p. 227. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Smith, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXI. (1901) 1902, p. 171. 

 Ophicephalus striatus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, P- 533- 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Jordan iS; Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish Wash. XXVI. (1906) 



1907, p. 27. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Sundara Raj, Rec. Indian Mus. XII. 1916, p. 270. 



D- 38—43; A. 23—2;; P. 15—17; V. 6; L. 1. 52—57; 



4 (4i)-5 



L. tr. I 

 8—10 

 Cylindrical anteriorly, compressed posteriorly. Height 5 — 6, 

 6 — y.T) in length with caudal. Head 3 — 3.2, 3.6 in length with 

 caudal. Head depressed, its upper profile somewhat convex, 

 interorbital space flat. Eye 5 (in specimen of 80 mm.) — 8 (in 

 specimen of 340 mm.), twice (or less in small specimens) in 

 interorbital space. Snout less than twice length of eye, its tip 

 in the horizontal through middle of eye. Cleft of mouth oblique. 

 Maxillary reaching behind eye, in young specimens not so far. 

 Lower jaw slightly prominent. In the intermaxillaries bands 

 of about 5 or 6 rows of teeth anteriorly, tapering posteriorly. 

 These teeth are pointed and curved backwards, the postsymphy- 

 sial ones longer and canine-like. In the mandibles the teeth are 

 placed in several rows near the symphysis, in one row laterally. 



