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Show 1905.] FISHES OF THE FAMILY CICHLID^E. 159 forming 4 series in the upper jaw, 3 in the lower. 10 or 11 gill-rakers on the lower part of anterior arch. Scales denticulated except on the head and the lower parts of the thorax and abdomen, 48-60 n5--7 38-46 in a longitudinal series below the lateral line, 2-3| between last dorsal spine and lateral line, 2 between upper and lower lateral lines. Lateral line 21- 24 + 7-10. Dorsal (X V I ) X V I I -X V I I I 13-14 (15-16), the spines subequal or oidy slightly increasing from the sixth, the last 3-| the length of head. Anal III 8-10. Pectoral J-|, ventral |-| the length of head. Caudal peduncle deeper than long. Brownish ; a dark stripe from snout through eye to extremity of operculum, continued on the body as a longitudinal band in the young; a dark oblique stripe below the ey e ; a dark blotch above the pectoral; sometimes obscure cross-bars on the upper part of the body ; a dark spot or ocellus on the upper half of the base of caudal; vertical fins greyish, the dorsal sometimes with a blackish edge, the soft dorsal and caudal sometimes with clear spots. Southern Brazil; Rio de la Plata. 1. (159 mm.) Rio Grande do Sul. Dr. H. von lliering. 2. (69 mm.) Upper Paraguay. Dr. A. Borelli. 3. (75 mm.) Carandasinlio, Matto Grosso. Dr. A. Borelli. 4. (162 mm.) Paraguay. Dr. Ternetz. 2. C r e n ic ic h l a s a x a t il is . Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 65, pi. xxxi. fig. 1 (1754). Gronov. Mus, Ichth. ii. No. 185, p. 29, pi. vi. fig. 3 (1756). Spar us saxatilis Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10), p. 278 (1758). Scarus rufescens Gronov. Zoophyl. p. 67, pi. vi. fig. 3 (1763). Perea saxatilis Bloch, Ausl. Fische, vi. p. 79, pi. 309 (1792). Cichla labrina Agass. in Spix, Pise. Bras. p. 99, pi. lxii. fig. 1 (1829); Schomb. Fish. Guiana, p. 139, pi. iii. (1843). Crenicichla saxatilis Heck. Ann. Mus. Wien, ii. 1840, p. 432 ; Glinth. Cat. Fish. iv. p. 308 (1862); Eigenm. & Bray, Ann. Ac. N. York, vii. 1894, p. 620 ; Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, xvi. 1903, p. 373 (1904). Cychla rutilans Schomb. t. c. p. 142, pi. v. Scarus pavoninus Gronov. Cat. Fish. p. 67 (1854). Crenicichla frenata Gill, Ann. Lyc. N. York, vi. 1858, p. 386. Crenicichla proteus Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. xxiii. 1872, p. 252; Pellegr. 1. c. Crenicichla proteus, var. argynnis Cope, 1. c. Crenicichla saxatilis, var. semicincta Steind. Denkschr. Ak. Wien, lix. 1892, p. 376 ; Pellegr. t. c. p. 374. Crenicichla argynnis Pellegr. t. c. p. 373. Crenicichla saxatilis, var. albopunctata Pellegr. t. c. p. 374. Crenicichla vaillanti Pellegr. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1903, p. 124, and t. c. p. 376. Depth of body 3 f -4 f in the length, length of head 3-3§. P r o c . Z o o l . S o c .- 1905, V o l . I. No. X I. 11 |