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postorbital part of head, the osseous part of its strong, flattened 

 spine, which is denticulated along its hindborder, one eye- 

 diameter shorter. Base of dorsal nearly equal to its distance 

 from the adipose fin, the base of which is much longer than 

 anal or dorsal. Ventrals far distant from anal, originating 

 behind dorsal or below its last ray, a little shorter than 

 pectorals, which are very broad and half as long as head. 

 The osseous part of their strong, flat spine has the hindborder 

 denticulated, much shorter than half head and much shorter 

 than dorsal spine. Caudal bifurcated, the lobes pointed, the 

 upper one the longer. Teeth in broad bands, in the upper 

 jaw slightly curved, in the lower jaw strongly so, those on the 

 palate in a horse-shoe like band, as broad as the maxillary one. 

 Violet, underside of head, belly, hindborder of operculum, 

 upperborder of orbit, an interorbital patch, whitish. A yellowish 

 border at upper and lower margin of caudal, at anterior margin 

 of adipose fin and anal and ventrals. Length 450 mm. 



Nomen in dig.: Hinur (Sundan.), Ikan Djatisa (Djambi). 



Habitat: Java (river Tjitarum) ; Sumatra (river Batang Hari !). 



In rivers. 



8. Macrones gulio (Ham. Buch.). 



Pimelodus gulio Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, p. 201. 

 Bagrus albilabris Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839^.416. 

 Bagrus f^lsc^ls Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839, P- 4 1 ?- 

 Bagrus gulio Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839, p. 418. 

 Bagrus birmannus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839, p. 419. 

 Bagrus abbreviates Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, XIV. 1839^.420. 

 Bagrus gulioides Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie, 111(2). 1846, p. 152. 

 Bagrus melas Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie, III (2). 1846, p. 152. 

 Bagrus Schlegelii Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie, III (2). 1846, p. 153. 

 Bagrus rhodopterygius Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie, III (2). 1846, 



P- 153- 



Bagrus abbreviatus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1236. 

 Bagrus gulio Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. I. Siluri, 1858, p. 163. 

 Aspidobagrus gulio Bleeker, Atl. Ichth, II. 1862, p. 60. 

 Macrones gulio Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 79. 

 Macrones gulio Kner, Novara-Exp. Fische, 1865 1867, p. 307. 

 Macrones gulio Day, Fishes of India 4. 18781888, p. 445. 



B. 9; D. i. 7; A. 1415; P. I. 89; V. 6. 



Elongate, rather robust. Height 4 ! /4 4*/3 head 3'/2 3 2 /s- 

 Greatest width of head somewhat more than head without 

 snout. Dorsal profile before dorsal sloping downwards in a 



