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i. Glyptosternum platypogon (C. V.) [Fig. 104]. 



Pimelodus platypogon Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XV. 1840, p. 152. 

 Pimelodus cyanochloros Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXL I. 1847, Nieuwe Bijdr. 



Sil. Java p. n. 



Glyptothorax platypogon Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. II. 1862, p. 63. 

 Glyptosternum platypogon Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 187. 

 Glyptosternum Kukenthali Steindachner, Abh. Senckenb. Nat. Gesell. XXV. 



1901, p. 448 i). 



Glyptothorax platypogon Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. (2) LVII. 1905^.470. 

 Glyptosternum platypogon Popta, Notes Leyden Mus. XXVII. 1906, p. 79. 



Fig. 104. Glyptosternum platypogon (C. V.). The figure of the anterior part, 

 seen from below, shows the thoracic adhesive apparatus, nat. size. 



B. 89; D. I. 6; A. 4. 79; P. I. 710; V. I. 5. 



Height 5 5 2 / 3 , head 3 ! / 2 4Ys eve 8 XI - Snout half as 

 long as head or a little shorter, interorbital space nearly as 

 long as the distance of the anterior nostril from the eye, 

 nasal barbel equal to 2 / 3 of lastnamed distance. Maxillary 

 barbels extending on the pectorals, mandibulary ones to the end 

 of the head, mental ones considerably shorter. Occipital process 

 about twice as long as broad. Dorsal about as high as head 

 without snout, in smaller specimens higher; its spine in the 

 first case longer, in the second case much longer than half 

 of the head. Distance of dorsal to adipose fin, according to 

 size, more or less than twice the length of lastnamed fin. 

 Anal lower than dorsal. Ventrals rounded, equalling dorsal 



i) Glyptosternum Kukenthali Steindachner, from Baram river, Borneo, is 

 probably an exeedingly large specimen (267 mm.) of G. platypogon. See also 

 Fowler 1. s. c. 



