LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED IN THE RIVER AT BUYTEN- 

 ZORG, JAVA, BY DR. DOUGLAS HOUGHTON CAMPBELL. 



By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale, 



Of Sta7iford University. 



In the summer of 1906, Dr. Douglas Houghton Campbell, professor 

 of botany in Stanford University, made a visit to the famous botanic 

 garden at Buytenzorg, in Java. While there he obtained a small but 

 finely preserved collection of the river fishes, recorded in the present 

 paper. A series of specimens is in the United States National 

 Museum and in the museum of Stanford University. One species is 

 apparently new to science, (rlo.'^fiogohiufi camphelUanus. 



Family MONOPTERID^. 



I. MONOPTERUS ALBUS (Zuieuw). 



Length of head, 10.20 in distance between tip of snout and vent; 

 length of tail, 2.50 in distance anterior of vent; eye S in head, midway 

 between tip of snout and angle of mouth; teeth small, conical, in 

 bands tapering toward angle of mouth; palatine teeth similar to those 

 of jaw; tail tapering and narrow; origin of dorsal above vent; color in 

 spirits, greenish above, lighter below, some small dark specks on head. 



One specimen, length 12.50 inches. 



Family CLARIID^. 



2. CLARIAS MAGUR (Buchanan-Hamilton). 



Macroptei'onotns magur Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes, Ganges, pp. 146, 374, 



pi. XXVI, fig. 45. 

 Clarias magvr Cuvier and Valenciennes, Poiss., XV, p. 283. — GiInther, Cat., 



V, p. 17. 

 Clarias batrachus Bleeker, Atl. Ich., II, p. 103, pi. xcviii, lig. 2; Java (not 



Silurus batrachus Linnaeus, which is Clarias fusnis Lacepede). 



■Head 5 in length to base of caudal; depth 6.50 ; eye 9 in head. D. 64 ; 

 A. 52; dorsal fin not attached to caudal; vomerine teeth in united 

 band; maxillary barbel extending to posterior third of pectoral or 

 beyond. 



Four specimens, length, 2.5 to 8 inches. 



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