1869. | FRESHWATER FISHES OF BURMA. 617 
Eyes situated opposite the angle of the mouth, a portion being 
on the lower surface of the head. Diameter ~ of length of head, 
14 diameter from end of snout, 2 diameters apart. 
Nape of neck elevated. ‘The width of the head equals its length 
without the snout, and is the same as its height. 
Gape of mouth wide, cleft equals half its gape; lower jaw strongly 
prominent. Maxillary cirri reach as far as the posterior margin 
of the orbit; mandibular pair opposite the angle of the mouth and 
minute. 
Teeth villiform in both jaws, and in an interrupted band on the 
vomer, 
Fins. Dorsal arises above the ventrals. Pectoral spine weak, 
entire, as long as the head without the snout. Anal reaches the 
base of the caudal, but is separated from it by a notch. Caudal 
deeply forked. 
Colours. Silvery, spotted all over with fine black dots, giving it a 
dark cloudy appearance. A black finger-mark on the side above the 
base of the pectoral fin. Caudal lobes with black tips. 
Hab. Throughout the branches of the Irrawaddi, in the Pegu 
and Sittoung rivers. 
Out of many specimens, the largest was 64 inches long. In one 
the mandibular cirri were absent, but it was evidently the same 
species. 
The Pseudeutropius taakree, Sykes, or the P. longimanus, Giin- 
ther, is tolerably abundant in the Irrawaddi and its branches—as is 
also the P. goongwaree, Sykes, or Eutropias macrophthalmus, Blyth. 
The former has been fully described by Dr. Giinther (Catalogue of 
Fishes, vol. v. p. 60); the latter has still some points which require 
investigation, although it is doubtless Bagrus ewodon, C. & V. 
PsEUDEUTROPIUS GOONGWAREF, Sykes. 
D.1|0. P.1/8. V.8. A. 46-54. C.17. 
Length of head nearly 4, of pectoral 4, of caudal 4, height of body 
nearly + of the total length. 
Eyes behind the cleft of the mouth, and partly on the lower sur- 
face of the head. Diameter 7 of length of head, 14 diameter from 
end of snout, 24 diameters apart. 
Rostral cirri as long as the head; maxillary reaching the anal fin ; 
external mandibular pair slightly the longest, and extending to the 
base of the pectoral fin. The longitudinal furrow on the head 
extends to the base of the occipital process, which is narrow, and of 
nearly equal width throughout. The cleft of the mouth extends half- 
way to the orbit ; upper jaw slightly the longest, anteriorly rounded. 
Teeth villiform in the lower jaw and over the lower surface of the 
snout, so as to be entirely beyond the lower jaw. Palatine teeth in 
a narrow uninterrupted curved band. 
Fins. Dorsal spine somewhat slender, as long as the head without 
the snout, finely serrated posteriorly. Pectoral spine about the same 
length, stronger, and coarsely denticulated along its whole internal 
