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uccd into an undivided, articulated filament. Operculum entire, 

 prae- and suboperculum finely denticulated at their horizon- 

 tal border. 



Distribution: that of the single species known. 



I. Osphronemus goramy Lac. (Fig. 89, p. 343). 



Osphroitcjiius gLvaiiiy Lacepcde, Mist. Nat. Poissons III. 1802, p. 116 & 117. 

 Osphronienus olfax Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. VII. 1831, p. 377. 

 Osphroieutus satyrus 151eeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie II. 1845, p. 519. 

 Osphromcnus olfax Cantor. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. XVIII. 1850, p. 1070. 

 Ospliroi/ie/nis olfax Blacker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIII. 1850, Vissch. doolhofv. 



kieuw. p. 10. 

 Osphroincims olfax Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 — 1861, p. 382. 

 Osphroniemis olfax Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 372. 

 Osphroinenus olfax Bleeker, Atl. ichth. IX. 1877, tab. 395 & 396, Osphrom. 



tab. I, fig. 6, tab. II, fig. 6. 

 Osphromcnus olfax Verh. Akad. Amsterdam XIX. 1879, Mem. I'oiss. pharyng. 



labyrinth, p. 1 7. 

 Osphyomcnus goiira/iii Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1909, p. 774. 



D. XII— XIII. II — 13; A. IX— XL 19— 21; P. 2, 13—14; V.I. 5; 

 L.l. 30—33 ; L.tr. -^^^. 



Height in large specimens nearly twice the length of the 

 head, which goes about 3.4 in length, 4.3 in length with caudal; 

 head in young acute, in adult obtuse; rostro-frontal line concave, 

 in adult nearly straight. Mandible increasing in height with 

 age and getting a prominent chin. More or less brownish, 

 olivaceous above, silvery or yellowish below. In young with 

 about 8 darker crossbands; a dark spot with yellow or silvery 

 outer circle above the soft anal and a blackish spot at the 

 base of the pectoral. Length up to 500 mm. 



Nom. in dig. : gurami (indig. et sinens. Ind. Orient.), Kalui 

 (Djambi), Ikan kali (Palembang). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Palembang, Batang Hari !, Djambi!, 

 Taluk!, Lahat, Gunung Sahilan !, Sidjundjung !, Padang Pand- 

 jang, Singkarah!, Lake of Singkarah !, Kuala Lumpur, Laut 

 Tador, riv. Selapian, Deli !, Siboga, Padang, Pajakombo, Solok, 

 Meninjau, Benkulen) ; Java (Batavia !, Buitenzorg!, Bantam, Tji- 

 panas, Tjandjur); Madura; Borneo (Sambas, river Kapuas, Sin- 

 tang, river Mahakam, upper coarse and upper and lower coarse 

 of river Bo, Baram river, Banjermassin). — Siam, Ceylon, Pinang, 

 Malakka, naturalized in Seychelles and Australia. 



An excellent foodfish introduced and naturalized in various 



