328 



of 0. polylepis mentioned by VOLZ (Revue Suisse Zool. XII. 

 1904, p. 460) which is a pity, as VOLZ records 0. hicius on 

 the same page, from the same locality. Probably the last ones 

 are large specimens, with concave profile, which differ consi- 

 derably in aspect from the young ones, which he therefore 

 referred to 0. polylepis. 



10. Ophiocephalus micropeltes (K. v. H.) C.V. [Fig. 85, p. 329]. 



Opiiioccphalus micropeltes (Kuhl & van Ilasselt) Cuvier & Valenciennes, Mist. 



nat. Poissons VII. 1831, p. 427. 

 Ophiocephalus sopeiitinus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. VII. 183 1, p. 429. 

 Ophiccphalus bivit talus Blacker, Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie (11)3, '8455P'5I9' 

 Ophicephahis micropeltes Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIII. 1850, Doolh. kieuw. p. 12. 

 Ophicephalus Stevensii Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie V. 1853, p. 444. 

 Ophiocephalus micropeltes Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 — 1861, p. 482. 

 Ophiocephalus diplogramtuc Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1865, p. 36. — Fishes 



of Malabar, 1865, p. 147. 

 Ophiocephalus micropeltes von Martens, Preuss. Exp. nach Ostasien, Zool. Theil I. 



1876, p. 303, Tab. 7, fig. I. 

 Ophiocephalus micropeltes Bleeker, Atl. ichth. IX. 1877, Tab. 399, fig. 3. — Verh. 



Akad. Amsterdam XIX. 1879, Poissons pharyng. labyr. p. 55. 

 Ophiocephalus micropeltes Sauvage, Nouv. Arch, du Mus. IV. (2) 1881, p. 167. 

 Ophiocephalus micropeltes Day, Fishes of India, 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 365. 

 Ophiocephalus studeri Volz, Zool. Anz. XXVI. 1903, p. 535. — Zool. Jahrl). 



Abth. Syst. XIX. 1903, p. 376. 

 Ophiocephalus micropeltes Weber & de Beaufort, in IMaasz "Durch Zentral- 



Sumatra" Bd. II. 19 12, p. 17. 



D. 42—47; A. 25—28; P. 18— 20; V. 1.5; L. 1. 82—91; 



L. tr. ^ I " . 



15—16 

 Cylindrical, compressed posteriorly. Height 5.1 — 5.5, 6.1 — G.j 

 in length with caudal. Head 2.6 — 2.8, 3.1 — 3.4 in length with 

 caudal. Head depressed, rather pointed, flat above, the profile 

 from occiput to snout sloping in a straight line. Eye 6^1^ — 7'/.^, 

 twice to 2.5 in the interorbital space and about 4.5 in the 

 postorbital part of the head. Snout longer than, but not twice 

 as long as eye, its tip in the horizontal through middle of 

 eye. Cleft of mouth oblique. Maxillary reaching to behind eye. 

 Lower jaw somewhat prominent. In the upper jaw a pluri- 

 serial band of small teeth. On the palatines and the anterior 

 part of the vomer a continuous row of small teeth and imme- 

 diately behind this a row of distant strong canines. Small 

 teeth in several rows near the symphysis in the lower jaw, 



