1849v] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, 1237 



The nasal cirri extend to the preopercle, the maxillary to the point of 

 the ventrals, the external mandibular to the point of the pectorals ; the 

 internal are one half of the external. The dorsal spine is rather slender, 

 longitudinally striated, with teeth on the posterior margin, and two or 

 three on the anterior near the apex. The length is f of the first dor- 

 sal ray, which is J of the length of the head. The adipose dorsal is 

 as high as the anal, but of half the extent. Each lobe of the furcated 

 caudal equals the head ; in young individuals the upper one terminates 

 in a short filament. The pectoral spine is longer and broader than the 

 dorsal ; the upper surface is lineated, the margin towards the rays is 

 strongly toothed. At Pinang individuals occur at all seasons, but not 

 in great numbers. They are eaten by the natives. 



Bagrus sondaicus, Cuv. and Val. 



Bagrus sondaicus, Cuv. and Val. XIV. 444. 



Bagrus sondaicus, Bleeker : Verhandel, Batav. Genoots. XXI. 4, 14, 



29 and XXII. 5. 



Helmet dark olive bronze, (tubercles white,) lighter on the cheeks 

 and opercles ; back deep steel-blue with greenish reflections, the sides, 

 to a little beneath the lateral line, lighter, silvery, with from 12 to 15 

 vertical bands reflecting steel grey or pale golden green ; rest of the 

 sides and abdomen silvery white ; fins greenish grey minutely dotted 

 with black ; external half of pectorals, anal and the lower caudal lobe 

 blackish ; maxillary cirri black ; external mandibular white at the base, 

 rest black ; internal maxillary white. Iris golden green, blackish 

 towards the orbit. 



D 1/7—1 (adipose), C 15-J-, A 17 or 18, V 6, P 1/10, Br. VI. 



Cirri : 2. 



4 

 Habit. — Sea of Pinang y Malayan Peninsula, 



Straits of Sunda, Java, Madura. 



Total length : 1 foot 9 inch. 



The length of the head is | of the total, slightly exceeding the 

 greatest vertical diameter of the body, in front of the dorsal spine. 

 The breadth of the head nearly equals the length. The horizontal 

 diameter of the orbit is 6J in the length in the head. The bones form- 

 ing the helmet are granulated as far as the anterior margin of the orbit, 

 but the small triangular truncated suprascapular is like the opercle 



