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Show 1884.] GENERA SICYDIUM AND LENTIPES. 167 greater than the height and about two thirds of the length. The height of the body is about one fifth of the length. Scales on the side larger than those on the tail, and much larger than those on the anterior part of the body and occiput. The diameter of the eye is one sixth of the length of the head and half the interorbital space. The maxilla extends to the vertical from the posterior margin of the eye. The length of the pectoral is greater than the length of the head; the length of the caudal is contained four times and one third in the total length of the body. The third dorsal spine is produced into a short filament rather higher than the body ; second dorsal not so high as the body. Colour, body above deep violet or greenish violet, below whitish or yellowish, with six or seven broad oblique bands of darker more or less indistinct; dorsal and anal fins orange, second dorsal sometimes with large regular brown spots on the rays ; anal with a broad violet margin. Caudal olive, with the superior and inferior edges yellow ; pectoral yellow-edged. The largest specimen measures 4T 9 0 inches. Hab. Moluccas ; rivers of the East Indian Archipelago. Three adult specimens. 19. SICYDIUM PARVEI, Bleeker. Sicydium parvei, Bleeker, Natuurk. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. iv. 1853, p. 427. Sicyopterus parvei, Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Amst. (2) ix. p. 277 ; et Arch. Ne'erl. ix. p. 313. D. 6^j. A. -v L. lat. 70. L. trans, ca. 14. (Teeth in the upper jaw tricuspid?) A row of papillae on the gum beneath the upper lip ; horizontal teeth conspicuous. The total length of the body (without the caudal) is about four and a half times the length of the head ; the width of the head is rather greater than the height, and two thirds of the length. Tbe height of the body is less than one fifth of the length. Scales oil the nape, shoulder, and belly cycloid, rest ctenoid ; those on the side rather larger than those on the tail, and much larger than those on the anterior parts. The diameter of the eye is a quarter or one fifth of the length of the head, and about half the interorbital space. The maxilla extends to the vertical from the middle of the eye. The length of the pectoral is greater than that of the head ; the length of the caudal is about one fifth of the total length of the body. The third dorsal spine is rather higher than the body. Colour, body blackish-violet, becoming lighter below; caudal yellow, with a broad violet band round the margin; the other fins brownish-violet. The largest specimen measures 4% inches (BleeJc.). Hab. Rivers of Garut, West Java. |