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whilst the other freshwater fishes are to be found only after the high Nile. It is 

 captured by nets or on hooks, but the flesh is insipid and watery and is used only by 

 the poorer classes. 



Clarias anguillaris is confounded with C. lazera under the names of Armut and 

 Karmut. Mr. Loat has furnished me with the following list of native names : — 

 "Armut" (by* J), at Cairo, Barrage N. of Cairo, Samannud, Lake Edkou, Lake 

 Menzaleh, Lake Borollos, Lake Mareotis, Kafr-el-Zayat, Beni-Souef, Rosetta, Girgeh ; 

 " zdlool" (perhaps Jji£?) on Lake Menzaleh, this name sometimes applied to small 

 examples of this species; u zaf loot" (clj^Sj) on Lake Borollos, this name some- 

 times applied to small examples; "hut" (cu^) is the name for this species at 

 San, a town on the Bahr San-el-hager, which runs into Lake Menzaleh at the 

 S.W. corner; also applied to this species at Assiut ; " kurr" ("£), between Shellal 

 andKorosko; " gummuck " (lLU^), between Korosko and Haifa; " g 'armut " (ci^i)? 

 Omdurman. — Note: At Lahun in the Fayum, "armut" refers to small, and "hut" to 

 big examples of this species, also at Assiut and Akhmim and some other places ; at 

 the Lakes in the Delta, the word " hut" refers to female bouri with roe ; at the Birket 

 Karun, in the Fayum, " hut " refers to both big and small specimens of " armut" 



2. CLARIAS MOORIL 



(Plate L.) 



Boulenger, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) viii. 1901, p. 13. 



Depth of body nearly seven times in the total length, length of head three and 

 one-fourth times. Head once and three-fifths as long as broad, its upper surface 

 coarsely granulate ; occipital process angular, a little longer than broad ; frontal 

 fontanelle knife-shaped, three times as long as broad, nearly four times in the length of 

 the head ; occipital fontanalle small, in advance of the occipital process ; eye three 

 and one-third times in the length of the snout, six and two-thirds times in the 

 interorbital width ; width of the mouth nearly equal to the interorbital width ; band 

 of premaxillary teeth six times as long as broad : vomerine teeth mostly pointed, a few 

 in the middle granular, forming a crescentic band which is as broad as the preemaxillary 

 band. Nasal barbel one-fifth the length of the head ; maxillary barbel a little more 

 than half the length of the head, extending to the root of the pectoral fin ; outer 

 mandibular barbel once and a half as long as inner, which measures nearly one-third 

 the length of the head. Gill-rakers long and closely set, 87 on anterior arch. 

 Clavicles striated, distinct under the thin skin. Dorsal fin with 66 rays, its distance 



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