3. Ophiocephalus striatus Bl. 



Ophiocephalus striatus Bloch, Ausl. Fische VII. 1793, p. 141, tab. 359. 



Ophiocephalus wrahl Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poissons III. 1802, p. 551. 



Ophiocephalus wrahl Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, p. 60. 



Ophiocephalus chena Hamilton Buchanan, ibid. p. 62. 



Ophicephalus striattis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons VII. 1831, p. 417. 



Ophicephalus planiceps Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid. p. 425. 



Ophicephalus sowarah Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie II. (3) 1845, p. 519. 



Ophicephalus planiceps Bleeker, I.e. 



Ophicephalus striatus Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIII. 1850, Doolh. kieuw. p. 13. 



Ophiocephalus striatus Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XVIII. 1850, p. 1074. 



? Ophiocephalus cyanospilos Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie IV. 1853, p. 256. 



Ophiocephalus striatus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 1861, p. 474. 



Ophiocephalus striatus Kner, Novara-Exp. Fische 1865 1867, p. 234. 



Ophiocephalus vagus Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin (1868) 1869, p. 260. 



Ophiocephalus striatus Bleeker, Atl. ichth. IX. 1877, lab. 399, Fig. I. Verh. 



Akad. Amsterdam XIX. 1879, Poissons pharyng. labyr. p. 42. 

 ? Ophiocephalus cyanospilus Bleeker, Atl. ichth. IX. 1877, tab. 397, fig. 2, I.e. p. 45. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) II. 1885, p. 89. 

 Ophiocephalus striattts Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 366. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) IX. 1890, p. 184. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Steindachner, Ann. K. K. Naturh. Hofmus. XI. 1896, p. 227. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Smith, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXI. (1901)1902^.171. 

 Ophicephalus striatus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, P- 533- 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish Wash. XXVI. (1906) 



1907, p. 27. 

 Ophiocephalus striatus Sundara Raj, Rec. Indian Mus. XII. 1916, p. 270. 



D. 3843; A. 2327; P. 15 17; V. 6; L.I. 5257; 



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Cylindrical anteriorly, compressed posteriorly. Height 5 6, 

 6 7.3 in length with caudal. Head 3 3.2, 3.6 in length with 

 caudal. Head depressed, its upper profile somewhat convex, 

 interorbital space flat. Eye 5 (in specimen of 80 mm.) 8 (in 

 specimen of 340 mm.), twice (or less in small specimens) in 

 interorbital space. Snout less than twice length of eye, its tip 

 in the horizontal through middle of eye. Cleft of mouth oblique. 

 Maxillary reaching behind eye, in young specimens not so far. 

 Lower jaw slightly prominent. In the intermaxillaries bands 

 of about 5 or 6 rows of teeth anteriorly, tapering posteriorly. 

 These teeth are pointed and curved backwards, the postsymphy- 

 sial ones longer and canine-like. In the mandibles the teeth are 

 placed in several rows near the symphysis, in one row laterally. 



