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132 . (1.) Saccobranchus microps. 



Saccobranchus microps, Ounther. Catal. v. p. 31 ; Dai/, Fish. India. 

 p. 486. 



D. 8. P. 1/6. A. 70. 



Length of head 7|, height of body 8 in the total length. Eye* 

 much smaller than in S. fossilis, and less than one third the length 

 of the snout. Barbels the nasal reach the end of the pectoral, 

 the maxillary the root of the ventral fin. Teeth the vomerine 

 band is interrupted in its centre. Fins origin of the dorsal is 

 two sevenths of the length (excluding the caudal fin) from the end 

 of the snout. Pectoral spine feebly serrated, two thirds as long as 

 head. Ventral fin reaching the anal, which last is united with the 

 caudal. Colour brown, 



Hah.' Ceylon, growing to 6 inches in length. 



133. (2.) Saccobranchus fossilis. (Fig. 53.) 



Silurus fossilis, Block, Ich. t. 370, fig. 2. 



Saccobranchus fossilis, Day, Fish, India, p. 486, pi. cxiv, fig. 1 

 (see synon.). 



liitchu ka miitchee and Sinai, Hind. ; Stnyee and Shecn-ce, Assam. 

 Thay-lee, Tarn. ; Mar-pu, Tel. ; Sinyee, Ooriah, Beng. and N.W. Prov. ; 

 Naa-gyee and Nya-khoo, Burmese and Mugh. ; Lahoord (young), Nidlie 

 (adult), Punj. ; Kahree-meen, Mai. ; Lo-har, Sind. ; (Kamacha singgi, 

 Bhagalpur, H. B.). 



B. vii. D. 6-7. P. 1/7. V. 6. A. 60-79. C. 19. 

 Length of head from 5| to 7, of caudal fin from about 9 to 14, 

 height of body (greatly depending upon food or season; from 5 to 

 8 in the total length. The width of the head equals its length, 

 and that of the gape of the mouth is contained 2| to 2| times in 

 the length of the head. Eyes from 2 to 3 diameters from end of 

 snout. Barbels the maxillary extend to the middle of the pectoral, 



Fig. 53. Saccobranchus fossilis. 



or even the commencement of the ventral fins. Teeth those 

 on the vomer in a pyriform patch on either side, converging ante- 

 riorly, widely divergent posteriorly. Fins the dorsal commences 

 rather before the anterior third of the body ; the ventrals reach to 

 the third or fourth anal ray or just to the origin of that fin. 

 Pectoral spine serrated internally, it usually has a few ser- 

 rations externally at its anterior end; it is from two thirds to 



