APPENDIX C. 
227 
Bagrus. 
Body scaleless ; elongate. Adipose fin long; a short dorsal with 
a pungent spine and with nine or ten soft rays ; anal fin shorty with 
less than twenty rays. Barbels eight. Teeth on the palate in a 
continuous band. The upper jaw is the longer. Eyes with a free 
orbital margin. Caudal forked ; ventral with six rays^ situated far 
behind the pectorals, 
Bagrus hay ad ^ Forsk. [Bay ad) 
D. 1/10. A. 13—14. P. 1/9. V. 6. 
The length of the head is contained thrice and three -fourths in 
the total. Head broader than high^ its greatest width being not 
quite one-half of its length. Snout spatulate,, its length being one- 
third of that of the head; the upper jaw is slightly the longer. 
The maxillary barbels very long^ extending to the middle of the 
adipose fin. Dorsal spine of moderate strength^ half as long as 
the head^ not serrated. The adipose fin commences immediately 
behind the dorsal^ and is twice as long as the latter^ and nearly as 
high as the hinder part of the tail. Caudal deeply forked. Pec- 
toral spine as long and strong as that of the dorsal fin^ serrated 
at the inner side of its extremity ; the pectoral fin extends to the 
vertical from the first soft dorsal ray; ventral inserted below the 
end of the dorsal fin. 
Very common; grows to a length of three feet; and commonly 
sold as food. This is the fish figured and noticed by Sir S. Baker 
in the Tributaries of the Mle/^ p. 213. 
15 — 2 
