26 3 



without its postorbital part. Grayish above, whitish below. 

 Length 410 mm. 



Habitat: Timor (river Noil Bidjeli 350 M. above sea!); New 

 Guinea (river Goldie!). Philippines (JORDAN & RICHARDSON). 



In rivers. 



Note. This diagnosis is drawn after our specimens from 

 Timor, after a specimen in BLEEKER'S collection in the Leiden 

 Museum, found by Miss Dr. C. POPTA in a bottle together 

 with two specimens of C. oxyrhynchus C.V. and accordingly 

 labelled and after a cotype of MACLEAY of 410 mm. length, 

 which we received from the Australian Museum through the 

 kind intervention of Mr. Me CULLOCH. Our thanks are due to 

 the Trustees and the Director of the Australian Museum. 



3. Cestraeus oxyrhynchus C.V. 



Cestraeus oxyrhyncus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XI. 1836, p. 162. 

 Cestraeus oxyrhynchos Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie IX. 1855, p. 307. 

 Cestraeus oxyrhynchus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. 1860, Negende 



Bijdr. Vischfauna Sumatra, p. 9. 



Agonostoma oxyrhynchum Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 1861, p. 461. 

 Agonostoma oxyrhynchus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. 1865, p. 191. 



Ibid. p. 291. 



D 1 . IV; D 3 . I. 8; A. Ill, 9-10; P. 2.1617; V. 1.5; L.I. 4245; 

 L. tr. 14. 



Elongate; rostro-dorsal profile convex. Height 3.7 4 in 

 length; 4.8 5 in length with caudal; head slightly shorter 

 than height. Eye about 4*/ 2 times in head, about twice in strongly 

 convex interorbital space and in postorbital part of head and 

 about 1.5 times in the pointed snout. Intermaxillaries covered 

 by thick, fleshy lips, reaching to about middle of eye. Man- 

 dible included. Teeth in intermaxillaries anteriorly in two, 

 posteriorly irregularly in three series. A roundish patch of teeth 

 on each side of vomer. Origin of first dorsal nearer to end of 

 snout than to base of caudal, separated by 23 to 24 scales 

 from patch of small scales behind upperlip and opposite to 

 1 3th lateral scale. Origin of second dorsal opposite to 27^ O r 

 28 th scale of lateral line and two or three scales behind that 

 of anal, its base and height longer than those of second dorsal; 

 both fins are strongly emarginate as also caudal. Pectorals 

 less than one eye-diameter shorter than head, reaching to 



