1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1019 



the commissure of the gill-openings. Single individuals occur at all 

 seasons at Pinang. 



Fam. CATAPHRACTOID.E. 



Gen. Platycephalus, (Block, Schneider 1801) Cuv. and Val, 



Head much depressed with trenchant edges, armed with spines, 

 body covered with scales ; ventral fins five-rayed, widely separated 

 from each other, owing to the lengthened and flattened shape of the 

 pelvic bones ; palate with sharp teeth ; branchiostegous rays 7. 

 Platycephalus insidiator (Forskal). 



Cottus insidiator Forskal, Fauna Arab, 25, No. 8. 



Cottus insidiator, Linne: Syst. 1213. 



Callionymus indicus, Linne : Syst. 1153. 



Cottus spatula, Bloch, PI. 224. 



Batrachus indicus, Bloch : 43. 



Callionymus indicus, Bloch, 59. 



Calliomorus indicus, Lacepede II. 344. 



Cotte madecasse, Lacepede, III. 248, PI. 11, Fig. 1, 2. 



Platycephalus spatula, Bloch-Schneider, 59. 



Russell XL VI. Irrwa. 



Cottus insidiator, Shaw IV. 260. 



Cottus madagascariensis, Shaw IV. 261, PI. 37. 



Colliomorus chacca, Buch. Ham. 133, 373. 



Platycephalus insidiator, Cuvier and Val. IV. 227. 



(Icon) Platycephalus chacca, Gray : 111. Ind. Zool. II. PI. 93, Fig. 2. 



Platycephalus insidiator, Temm. Schl. Fauna Japon. Pise. 39, PI. 



XV. Fig. 1. 



Platycephalus insidiator, Richardson Rep. 1845, 216. 



Platycephalus insidiator, Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Gen. XXII. 6. 



Head above and back greenish or brownish grey with a few smaller 

 and larger dark brown scattered spots ; sides, from a little below the 

 lateral line, and abdomen white ; fin membrane of the caudal white, 

 orange or yellow at the base and along the rays ; the base indistinctly 

 spotted with brown ; the upper and lower angle black, between both 

 three longitudinal, somewhat oblique black bands, liable to individual 

 variations, the membranes of the other fins whitish, transparent ; the 

 dorsal, ventral and pectoral rays more or less distinctly annulated with 



