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lations on its upper surface are covered by a thin skin. Occipital 

 process about as long as the basal bone o£ the dorsal spine, both 

 meeting in the middle of the nape. Snout very long, contained 

 2g times in tbe length of the head, broad, depressed, with the 

 upper profile straight, and with the upper jaw much projecting 

 beyond the lower. Mouth of modei-ate width, rather less than 

 the distance between the eyes. Nasal barbels nearly as long as 

 the eye ; maxillary barbels extending to the margin of the prce- 

 operculum, outer mandibulary not reachiug the gill-opening. 

 Inner mandibulary barbels nearly in a straight line with the 

 outer, and two thirds of the diameter of the eye distant from each 

 other. The vomerine teeth are disposed on each side in two rather 

 broad continuous patches, the halves being separated in front 

 by a toothless space ; the palatine bones are armed with a 

 narrower band-like patch. Intermaxillary band narrowed out- 

 ward, each half not quite twice as broad as long. The width 

 of the bony intei-orbital space exceeds that of the orbit, which 

 is contained 2| tioies in the length of the snout, and is one 

 sixth of that of the head. Dorsal fin not elevated ; its base is 

 two fifths of its distance from the adipose, and double the length 

 of the base of the latter fin. Dorsal spine as long as the head 

 without snout, rather longer than the pectoral spine, smooth in 

 front, and feebly denticulated behind. Anal fin reaching the 

 caudal, when laid backward, with 15 raj's, 10 of which are 

 branched, the last split to the base, the first quite rudimentary. 

 Caudal deeply cleft, the upper lobe a little longer than the head. 

 Upper and lateral parts brownish, lower white. 



Camaroons (Nat. Hist. Mus. 71.11.20.21). Length 600 millira. 



Intermediate between Cli. cranchii and Cli. nigrodigitatus. 



EuTEOPius coNGENSis (Leach). 



Two specimens from the Prah River. The anal fin of one mth 

 56, of the other with 59 rays. Feeds largely on macrurous 

 crustaceans. 



Baebus teispilus (Bleek.). 



Puntius (Barhodes) trispilus, Bleek. Mem. Soc. HoU. Haarlem, 

 1862, p. 113, tab. 23. fig. 3. 



Two specimons from the Kotchwah Eiver, 27 and 76 millim. 

 long. 



Belying on Bleeker's description alone, I should have been 

 hardly justified in referring our specimens to his species. He 

 describes it as a large-eyed species, with the eye longer than the 

 snout, the diameter being one third, or a little less than one third, 

 of the length of the head, and equal to, or a little less than, the 

 length of the postorbital portion. His specimens measured from 

 72 to 110 millim.; thus his smaller specimen was almost the same 

 size as our larger one. Nevertheless, I find the eye to be con- 

 spicuously smaller, viz., two sevenths of the length of the head and 

 two thirds of that of the postorbital portion. Even our very 



