321 

 5- Ophiocephalus gachua H.B. 



Opliiocepluilus gachua Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, j). 68. 



Ophiocephalus aurantiacus Hamilton Buchanan, ibid. p. 69. 



Ophkcphalus marginaius Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons, VII. 1831, 



p. 411. 

 Ophicephalus limbatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. tab. 201. 

 Ophicephaliis cord-mota Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 414. 

 Ophicephalus fuscus Cuvier & Valenciennes, I.e. 

 Ophicephalus aurantiacus Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 415. 

 Ophiocephalus montanus McClelland, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. II. 1842, p. 583. 

 Philypnoides surakarte/isis Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. (1848) 1849, Blenn. 



Gob. p. 19. 

 Ophicephalus maigi/ialtis Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIIl. (1849) 1850, Doolh. 



kieuw. p. 14. 

 Ophiocephalus gachua Giinlher, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 — 1861, p. 471. 

 Ophiocephalus kelaarti Giinther, ibid. p. 472. 



Ophiocephalus gachua Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. 1865 — 1867, p. 233. 

 Ophiocephalus guachua var. malaccensis Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 



1868, p. 262. 

 Ophiocephalus gachua Bleeker, Atl. ichth. IX. 1877, tab. 397, fig. 4. — Verh. 



Akad. Amsterdam, XIX. 1879, Poissons pharyng. labyr. p. 38. 

 Ophiocephalus gachua Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 367. 

 Ophiocephalus gachua Vinciguerra, Annal. Musco Civico Geneva (2) IX. 1890, p. 185. 

 Ophiocephalus gachua Bean & Weed, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XLII. 1912, p. 608. 

 Ophiocephalus gachua Sundara Raj, Record Ind. Mus. XII. Prt. VI.- 1916, p. 275. 



3(3i) 



D. 31 — 35; A. 21— 24; P. 13— 16; V. 6;L.l. 41— 43;L.tr. i . 



7 

 Rody somewhat cylindrical anteriorly, compressed poste- 

 riorly. Height 5.5 — 6.5, 6.'/ — 8.3 in length with caudal. Head 

 3.1 — 3.5, 4 — 4.3 in length with caudal. Head depressed, flat 

 above, its upper profile sloping down in a nearly straight line 

 or somewhat convex. Eye 5 (in specimen of 65 mm.) — 8 (in 

 specimen of 142 mm.), in large specimens more than twice, 

 in small specimens less than twice in the interorbital space, 

 about I — 1.5 in snout. Tip of snout in the horizontal through 

 middle or upper part of eye. Cleft of mouth oblique. Maxillary 

 reaching to vertical through hindborder of eye, in small speci- 

 mens not so far. Lower jaw somewhat prominent. A band of 

 small teeth in the intermaxillaries. Teeth on the palatines and 

 on the foremost part of the vomer forming a continuous biserial 

 curved band, the outer teeth smaller, the inner teeth canines 

 or caninoid. A band of small teeth, tapering laterally, in the 

 lower jaw, the most interior row consisting of caninoid or 

 canine teeth. About 5 rows of scales between eye and poste- 

 Inl)o-.\ustkai.ian fishes IV^ 21 



