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very short nasal barbel. Maxillary barbels very broad, acutely 

 tapering behind, the much shorter mandibulary ones before 

 corner of mouth; they are slender and flattened as also 

 the still shorter mental ones, which are situated before and 

 between them. No free orbital margin. Eyes superior. Dorsal 

 6-rayed with a strong, pungent spine. Adipose fin above short 

 anal and equal to it. Ventrals 6-rayed and originating behind 

 dorsal. Pectorals with a flattened, strong, pungent spine. Dorsal 

 and pectoral spines as well as the lobes of the deeply forked 

 caudal, produced into long filaments. No thoracic adhesive 

 apparatus. In the upper jaw a broad crescentic band of 

 unequal teeth, the band in the lower jaw much narrower 

 and with a series of strong, curved teeth. All the teeth are 

 depressible. Palate edentulous. Gillopening wide. Gillmem- 

 branes anteriorly united, deeply emarginate, free from isthmus. 

 Branchiostegals 12. 



Fig. 105. Bagar'nis bagarius (Ham. Buch.). X ! /4- 



i. Bagarius bagarius (Ham. Buch.). 



Pimelodus bagarius Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes Ganges, 1822, p. 186, 378. 

 Bagarius Yartlli Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, II. 1841, p. 370. 

 Bagarius Buchanani Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Nalez. ichth. Ben- 



galen, p. 121. - - Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. I Siluri. 1858, p. 212. Atl. 



Ichth. II. 1862, p. 61. 



Bagarius yartllii Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mas. V. 1864, p. 183. 

 Bagarius Yarrellii Day, Fishes of India 4. 18781888, p. 495. 

 Bagarius lica Volz, Zool. Anz. XXVI. 1903, p. 557. Zool. Jahrb. Abth. 



Syst. XIX. 1903, p. 391. 



