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is strong, like a sabre : the surfaces finely striated, the outer margin 

 finely granulated with two or three teeth near the apex, the inner finely 

 toothed ; the length of the spine is 7\ in the total ; the first rays are 

 a little longer. The ventrals are situated at the anterior third of the 

 total length, in which they are contained 10£ times. Between the 

 anus and the anal fin appears a short conical appendage. The length 

 of the caudal is 7f in the total. The stomach is a short rounded sac, 

 the intestinal caudal is about \ of the total length ; the liver is divided 

 in two short lobes ; the left is again subdivided in two ; the gall is 

 oval, large ; the spleen is small, flattened, oval. The posterior branchial 

 appendage is large, nearly double the size of the anterior. This species 

 is numerous at all seasons. It is eaten by the poorer classes of natives. 



Gen. Plotosus, Lacepede, 1803. 



Body elongated, terminating in a compressed point ; two dorsals, of 

 which the second, caudal and anal united ; head naked ; strong conical 

 teeth in the jaws and vomer; eight short cirri; behind the conical 

 anal papilla a small ramified appendage. 



Plotosus anguillaris, (Bloch.) 



Renard, I. PL III. Fig. 19. Sambilang. 



Valentyn, No. 496, Ikan binara. 



Silurus arab, Forskal, XVI. No. 36 ? 



Platystachus anguillaris, Bloch, Tab. 373, Fig. 1. 



Plotose anguille, Lacep. V. PI. III. Fig. 2. 



Russell, CLXVI. Ingeelee. 



Platystachus anguillaris, Shaw, V. 30, PI. 99. 



Krusenstern : Voyage, PI. LX. Figs. 12 and 13. 



Duperrey : Voyage, Poiss. PI. XXXI. Fig. 3. 



Plotose ikapou, Lesson: Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. XV. 435. 



Plotosus anguillaris, Cuv. R. A. II. 297(')- 



Plotosus marginatus, Bennett : Life of Raffles. 



Plotosus anguillaris, Ruppell : Neue Wirb. Fische, 76. 



Plotosus vittatus, | Swainson> IL 307# 



Clarias anguillaris, J 



Plotosus lineatus, Cuv. and Val. XV. 412. 



Plotosus lineatus, Richardson: Report, 1845, 286. 



