LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED IN THE RIVER AT BUYTEN-ZORG, JAVA, BY DR. DOUGLAS HOUGHTON CAMPBELL. By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale, Of Sta7iford University. In the summer of 1906, Dr. Douglas Houghton Campbell, professor of botany in Stanford University, made a visit to the famous botanic garden at Buytenzorg, in Java. While there he obtained a small but finely preserved collection of the river fishes, recorded in the present paper. A series of specimens is in the United States National Museum and in the museum of Stanford University. One species is apparently new to science, (rlo.'^fiogohiufi camphelUanus. Family MONOPTERID^. I. MONOPTERUS ALBUS (Zuieuw). Length of head, 10.20 in distance between tip of snout and vent; length of tail, 2.50 in distance anterior of vent; eye S in head, midway between tip of snout and angle of mouth; teeth small, conical, in bands tapering toward angle of mouth; palatine teeth similar to those of jaw; tail tapering and narrow; origin of dorsal above vent; color in spirits, greenish above, lighter below, some small dark specks on head. One specimen, length 12.50 inches. Family CLARIID^. 2. CLARIAS MAGUR (Buchanan-Hamilton). Macroptei'onotns magur Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes, Ganges, pp. 146, 374, pi. XXVI, fig. 45. Clarias magvr Cuvier and Valenciennes, Poiss., XV, p. 283. — GiInther, Cat., V, p. 17. Clarias batrachus Bleeker, Atl. Ich., II, p. 103, pi. xcviii, lig. 2; Java (not Silurus batrachus Linnaeus, which is Clarias fusnis Lacepede). ■Head 5 in length to base of caudal; depth 6.50 ; eye 9 in head. D. 64 ; A. 52; dorsal fin not attached to caudal; vomerine teeth in united band; maxillary barbel extending to posterior third of pectoral or beyond. Four specimens, length, 2.5 to 8 inches. Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXXIII— No. 1575. 535
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