442 



SILUKIDJL 



width; lips much developed; movable mandibular teeth short, 15 in 

 number. Maxillary barbel not margined, reaching base of pectoral spine ; 

 outer mandibular barbel with 3, outer with 5 or 6 simple branches. 

 Gill-opening not extending downwards beyond root of pectoral spine. 

 Occipito-nuchal shield feebly rugose. Humeral process much longer 

 than broad, not keeled, sharply pointed, not extending quite so far back 

 as occipito-nuchal shield. Dorsal I 7 ; spine ^ length of head, smooth 

 in front. Adipose dorsal 3 times as long as its distance from rayed 



Fig. 331. 



Synodontis courteti. 

 Type;, after Pellegrin (I. c). |. 



dorsal. Anal IV 9, rounded. Pectoral spine stronger and longer than 

 dorsal, not reaching ventral, serrated on both sides. Caudal moderately 

 forked. Greyish, with very numerous black dots on the head and with 

 larger round black spots on the body and fins, those on the sides of the 

 body largest, as large as the eye. 



Total length 105 millim. 



Shari River. — Type in Paris Museum. 



34. SYNODONTIS PARDALIS. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (8) ii. 1908, p. 80. 



Depth of body 4^- to 4| times in total length, length of head 3^ to 3| 

 times. Head 1^ times as long as broad, granulate above ; snout 

 obtusely pointed, 1| to If times as long as postocular part of head ; eye 

 superolateral, i\ to 5J times in length of head, If to 2£ times in inter- 

 orbital width ; lips moderately developed ; prasmaxillary teeth forming a 

 short and broad band ; movable mandibular teeth about | diameter of 

 eye, 15 to 20 in number. Maxillary barbel feebly margined at base, 

 as long as or slightly shorter than head, extending to anterior fourth 

 or third of pectoral spine ; mandibular barbels with short tubercular 



