162 TELEOSTEI. PHTSOSTOMI. 



the two. Pectoral spine strong, as long as the head excluding the 

 snout, and having from ten to fourteen strong denticulations in- 

 ternallv. Upper caudal lobe the longer. An anal papilla before 

 the fin. Colour leaden or brown superiorly, lighter beneath, 

 with or without a brown band along the side, and a dark blotch at 

 the base of the caudal fin. Upper halt' of dorsal fin darkish, and a 

 dark band along the anal. 



Hub. Malabar and the "Wynaad range of hills. 



172. (18.) Macrones bleekeri. 



Bagrus keletius, Bleeder, Batav. Genootsch. Vcrhand. xxv, Ich. Beny. 



p. 115 (not Cuv. 8f Veil.}. 

 Macrones bleekeri, Day, Fish. India, p. 451, pi. ci, fig. 1 (see synon.). 



B. x. D. 1/7 ] 0. P. 1/9-10. V. 6. A. 9-10 (3/6-7). C. 17. 



Length of head 5^ to 5|, of caudal fin 5|, height of body 5 in 

 the total length. Eyes diameter 4^ in length of head, nearly 2 

 diameters from end of snout, and lg apart. The greatest width 

 of the head equals its length behind the hind nostril. Snout some- 

 what obtuse. Width of the gape of the mouth nearly equals 

 half the length of the head. Upper surface of head, opercles, 

 occipital bone, and humeral process granulated. Median longi- 

 tudinal groove on the head shallow, and reaching to the base of 

 the occipital process, which is twice as long as broad at its base, 

 and reaches the basal bone of the, dorsal fin. Occipital process 

 not grooved, but with ridged lines. Barbels nasal reaching the 

 hind edge of the eye, maxillary the anal fin, external mandibular 

 the base of the pectoral, internal a little shorter. Teeth on the 

 palate in an uninterrupted semilunar band. Fins dorsal fin 

 rounded, not so high as the body, the spine smooth and equal to 

 half the length of the head (in Sind specimens the spine is slightly 

 serrated posteriorly, and I once saw a specimen that had eight 

 branched dorsal rays) ; adipose dorsal commencing just behind the 

 rayed fin, and having its base twice the length of the head. Pec- 

 toral spine stronger than that of the dorsal, and as long as the 

 head excluding the snout ; denticulated internally. Caudal with 

 pointed lobes, the upper being the longer. Colour brownish- 

 grey, with two light longitudinal bands, one above the other, below 

 the lateral line ; some specimens have a dark shoulder-spot and a 

 dark band along the middle of the anal fin. The fins are mostly 

 darkest at their edges. In a specimen from Burma there is a dark 

 spot at the end of the lateral line and light longitudinal body-bands. 



Hob. Sind, Jumna, upper waters of the Ganges, and Burma, 

 not attaining to a large size. It descends the rivers as low as 

 Bengal. 



20. Genus LIOCASSIS, Bleeker. 

 Syn. Kama, Meeker; Macrones, pt., Giinther. 

 Branchiostegals six. Gill-openings very wide, the membrane 



