1074 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Oct. 



Gen. Ophiocephaltjs, Bloch-Schneider, 1801. 

 With labyrinth-form superbranchial organ ; fins without spines, the 

 ventrals commencing with a divided or undivided, jointed ray ; dorsal 

 occupying nearly the whole length of the back ; caudal rounded ; 

 lateral line uninterrupted; head depressed, covered with polygonal 

 scales; both jaws, vomer and palatal bones with velvety, or card-like 

 teeth, among which generally some longer than the rest ; body elongated, 

 almost cylindrical. Branchiostegous rays five. 



Ophiocephaltjs striatus, Bloch. 

 Ophicephalus striatus, Bloch, PI. 359. 

 Ophicephalus wrahl, Lacepede, III. 552. 

 Ophicephalus striatus, Shaw, IV. 530. 

 Russell, CLXII. Muttah. 



Ophicephalus wrahl? Buch. Ham. ("Sol") 60, 367, PI. 



31, Fig. 17. 

 Ophicephalus chena, Buch. Ham. (Far.) 62, 367. 

 Ophicephalus striatus, Cuv. R. A. II. 230 ( 3 *) 

 Ophicephalus striatus, Cuv. and Val. VII. 417, PI. 202. 

 Ophicephalus striatus, Swainson, II. 237. 

 Ophicephalus wrahl, McClelland, Cal. Journ. Nat. Hist. 



II. 575. 

 Ophicephalus striatus, Jerdon. Madr. Journ, XV. 146. 

 Ikan haruan of the Malays. 



Head above and back greenish olive with indistinct clouded black 

 spots ; cheeks, opercles and sides to a little beneath the lateral line 

 lighter with metallic lustre ; throat, abdomen and lower part of the 

 head and sides white ; from the angle of the mouth a short metallic- 

 olive oblique line, and on the throat a few distant dark spots ; lower 

 part of sides with a number of backwards directed oblique, blackish 

 lines, the intervals between which pale salmon-coloured ; dorsal mem- 

 brane minutely dotted with brown so as to produce oblique brownish 

 lines, between which, at the base, appear some rounded whitish spots ; 

 caudal pale brownish with indistinct light concentric lines ; upper half 

 of anal white with oblique brown lines ; lower half blackish brown ; 

 ventrals white with indistinct blackish spots ; pectorals transparent 

 whitish, minutely dotted with brown along the margins of the rays. 



