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names B.pugnax from the Baram river in Borneo and of Tcrnate 

 (a locality which is certainly erroneous), is too short to make 

 out if they really belong to this species. We have never seen 

 specimens of Betta pugnax from the Archipelago and have it 

 therefore not included in this work. 



II. Trichopodus Lacepede. 



(LACfirfcDE, Hist. nat. Poiss. III. 1802, p. 129). 

 Trichopits Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons VII. 183 1, p. 388. 



Strongly compressed, oblong. Mouth somewhat protractile, 

 very small, its cleft very oblique but horizontal when upper 

 jaw is protruded. Lower jaw prominent; jaws with bands of 

 minute fixed teeth, some larger ones in outer series. Praeorbital 

 serrated. Scales ciliate, of moderate size, irregularly and obliquely 

 arranged. Lateral line complete, tubular, more or less curved 

 and irregular. Dorsal short, originating before or behind end of 



Fi<j. 93. Trichopodus tricltpptenis (Pall.) n. s. 



spinous anal, with 3 — 8 increasing spines and 8 — 1 1 ray.s, ending 

 far distant from caudak Anal beginning about below base of 

 pectorals, witii 9 — 14 spines and 25 — 39 mostly unbranched rays, 

 ending at base of caudal and covered by a sheath of scales, 

 except their broad outer border. Caudal broad, more or less 

 emarginate. Pectorals more or less pointed. Before their base 

 originate the ventrals with the first ray transformed in a long, 

 simple filament, to which are adnate a vestigal spine and 2 

 or 3 rudimentary rays. Operculum entire, prae-, sub- and inter- 

 operculum denticulate. 



Distribution: Islands of the Archipelago situated between 



