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Genus BAGARIUS, Bleeker. 
[Nalez. lehthyol. Faun. Bengal en Hindostau (Yerhaud. Batav. 
Genoofcsch. Wetensch. vol. xxv.), 1S53, p. 121.] 
Head depressed and bones of cranial roof exposed, those of the 
middle conspicuously ornamented ; an antero-posteriorly elongated 
frontal fontanelle ; cleft of month of moderate size ; teeth clustered 
and unequal in size, some rather large, but none on the palate. 
Trunk and fins as in Arius. 
Sagarins gigas, Gunther. 
l^fb. Bagarius gigas, A. Gunther, Geol. Mag. [2] vol. iii. p. 430, 
pl. xvi. fig. 1. 
type. Imperfect pectoral arch, <&c. ; British Museum. 
A provisional name for a fragment apparently of Bagarius. 
Form. <J- Loc. Freshwater Tertiary Formation : Padang, Sumatra. 
47513. Type specimen described and figured by Gunther, ioc. cit. 
Presented by Herr R. D. -1/. 1 erbeelc, IS* (>. 
^ The anterior portion of a large cranium from the Siwalik 
formation of Nahan, India, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 
•seems to belong to Bagarius yarrelli, which still exists in the larger 
rivers of India and Java (It. Lydekkcr, Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. xv. 
1882, p. 105, and Pakcont. Indica, ser. x. vol. iii. 1886, p. 254, 
ph xxxvi. fig. 1). This specimen was originally assigned to a gigantic 
batrachian by T. Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. vi. (1837), 
P- 538, pl. xxxi., and first determined to belong to a Siluroid fish 
by J. M Clelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. llist. vol. iv. (1844), p. 83, 
Pl. ix. 
An indeterminable pectoral fin-spine of a Siluroid from the Middle 
liocene of Perpignan, Rousillon, France, is described and figured 
y H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. xvii. (1885), p. 223, pl. iv. 
%■ 7. 
Two indeterminable fragments of fin-rays, doubtfully of this 
family, f rom a Tertiary sand (Miocene) in the Bihar Comitat, 
Hungary, are named Pimelodus sadlen, J. J. Heckel, Sitzungsb. k. 
Akad. Wiss. 1 850, pt. i. p. 19, and Dcnkschr. k. Akad. Wiss., rnath.- 
“aturw. Cl. vol. i. (1849), p. 213, pl. xiv. fig. 3. 
An undetermined Siluroid from the Lower Miocene Brown-coal 
ot freschen, near Biliu, Bohemia, in the Geological Museum of the 
German University, Prague, is described by G. C. Laube, Verhandl. 
k --k- geol. Reichsanst. 1897, p. 337. 
