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by skin. A strong barbel at the corner of the maxillary, a 

 pair of much smaller ones at the chin, two larger mandibulary 

 ones far behind them. Dorsal short with two contiguous spines. 

 No adipose fin. Anal short, far behind anus, its origin in the 

 middle of the total length. Ventrals behind the dorsal. Pec- 

 torals horizontal, with a strong denticulated spine. Caudal 

 truncate. Gillopening not surpassing upwards the base of the 

 pectorals, gillmembranes confluent and united with the isthmus. 

 No teeth on the palate, those in the jaws small, villiform, in 

 a rather broad band. Skin with longitudinal rows of tubercles 

 on trunk and anterior part of tail. 



Fig. 151. Breitensteinia insignis Steind. 



i. Breitensteinia insignis Steind. 



Breitensteinia insignis Steindachner, Sitzber. Akad. Wien, LXXXIII. 1881, Ichth. 



Beitr. X, p. 213. Ichth. Beitr. XI, Fig. 2. 

 Breitensteinia insignis Vaillant, Notes Leyden Mus. XXIV. 1902, p. 76. 



D. II. 5; A. 2. 8; P. I. 7; V. 6. 



Height 10 12, head 5 ! / 2 6. Snout 3 3 / 4 in head. Occipital 

 process forming a prominent ridge, anteriorly devided in two 

 blunt ridges which are again confluent near the nostrils, enclosing 

 a lozenge-shaped concavity. From their posterior quarter two 

 blunt ridges run forward below the eye to the anterior nostrils. 

 Parallel to the occipital process a strong ridge deflecting ven- 

 trally along the operculum. Scapular process very prominent, 

 reaching to about the middle of the pectoral spine when 



