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body, and another interrupted zic-zac shaped one, which is less distinct, 
at each side along the back. An indistinct dusky spot between the third 
and fourth ray of the first dorsal. Second dorsal obliquely striped with 
blackish, anal white with a dark subterminal band. Caudal with an 
indistinct median stripe, a continuation of the band along the sides of 
the body and with traces of a horse-shoe shaped submarginal band. A 
dark stripe runs from the eye to the corner of the mouth. 
Two spec. 44 and 45 mm, uppercourse of river Tubah, W, Ceram, 
February 27% 1911. 
This species is distinguished by its short body. It seems to be al- 
lied to S. taentwrus Gthr., but differs in having smaller scales, in having 
a shorter pectoral etc. 
Sicyopus multisquamatus n. sp. 
DAVE aid BAS LO rile = oy Te 
Body elongate, rather more depressed than compressed. The height 
of the body is contained a little more than 8 times in the total length, 
almost 7 times in the length without caudal. Head flattened above, the 
upper profile horizontal from the first dorsal till the eye, then sloping to 
the point of the snout. The length of the head is contained 4'/, times 
in the total length, almost 33/, times in the length without caudal. The 
diameter of the eye is equal to the length of the snout and 1/, of the 
length of the head. The interorbital space is rather more than 11/, times 
the diameter of the eye. The cleft of the mouth is low and horizontal, 
as in Sicyopterus. The entire upper lip and the sides of the lower lip 
are thick and swollen. The maxilla reaches a vertical from the 
middle of the eye. A single row of about 20 strong yellow-tipped teeth 
in the upper jaw. ‘These teeth stand wide apart; they are pointed and 
strongly curved inwards. A similar row of teeth in the mandible, but 
here the teeth are much smaller and not curved. Isthmus broad. The 
first dorsal is short and much lower than the second, one from which it 
is widely separated. The first rays of the second dorsal are as high as 
the body in front, but the last rays are much shorter. 
~The anal is not so high as the second dorsal, the first rays are the 
longest. The caudal is truncated, its length is a little more than 1/, of 
the total length. The rounded pectoral is shorter than the head. The 
ventrals are shaped as in Sicyopterus, but only the centre of the disk is 
adnated to the belly. Its length is almost equal to half the length of 
the head. Scales on neck and belly cycloid and small, on the hinder- 
part of the sides and on the tail large and strongly ctenoid. Head 
naked; the scales reach to the sides of the occiput, but they are here 
almost hidden in the skin and scarcely perceptible. Colour in spirits 
