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Habitat: Borneo (Baram river, after C. Poi'TA ')). Ganges 

 and Jumna rivers, Sind, Cachar, Assam. 

 In rivers. 



5. Osphronemus Lacepede. 



(LArKPEUK, Hist. nat. I'oiss. III. 1802, p. 116). 

 Ospluoincinis Cuvier <S; Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Foiss. \'\\. 1831, p. 377. 



Strongly compressed, oblong, elevated. Mouth protractile, 

 small, oblique. Jaws subequal, when old chin prominent. Prae- 

 orbital serrated. Bands of small, conical, fixed teeth in the 

 jaws, larger in the exterior series. Scales large, ciliate, those 

 on the head with a rough hindborder only, regularly arranged ; 

 lateral line formed by an uninterrupted series of tubes. Dorsal 



Fig. 89. Osphroncriius goraiiiy Lac 



with 12 — 13 spines and ii — 13 rays, originating far behind 

 base of pectorals and above or behind origin of anal, which 

 has 9 — II spines and 19 — 21 rays. Dorsal and anal spines 

 increasing in size. Soft dorsal and anal more or less obtusely 

 rounded and produced, their base without scales and their rays 

 simple. End of soft dorsal far before that of soft anal, which 

 is connected with the base of the truncate or slightly convex 

 caudal. Pectorals obtuse; ventrals inserted below their base, 

 consisting of a spine and five rays, the first of which is prod- 



i) C. M. L. PoPTA, Notes Leyden Museum XXVil. 1906, p. 255. 



