FAMILY XXI. CICHLID^E. 211 



pointed, upper jaw slightly the longer; lips thick, the lower with a well 

 developed frenum; outer series of teeth enlarged, canine-like; mouth 

 rather large ; maxillary 3 % in head ; mandible 2 ; preorbital 3 % to 4 ; 

 postorbital 2*^; snout 2^"; interorbital very convex, 3^ in head; 



FlG. 67. ClCHLASOMA STEINDACHNERI Jordan & Snyder. 

 No. 6164, Leland Stanford Jr. University. 



cheeks with about 7 rows of scales ; dorsal spines rather low, the eighth 

 3> in head, the last 2^ ; dorsal and anal rays not produced, their tips 

 scarcely reaching past base of caudal fin; pectoral fin iX in head; 

 ventral with rays not produced, their tips not reaching first anal spine; 

 no scales on base of soft dorsal and anal fins; caudal fin slightly 

 rounded; least depth of caudal peduncle 2^ in head, its length equal 

 to its depth. 



Color light brownish; sides with about 9 or 10 vertical dark bars; 

 a dark, irregular band from upper edge of opercle to base of caudal ; 

 this band more or less broken between the bars ; a black spot on middle 

 of base of caudal; sides of head usually profusely speckled with dark 

 dots ; a few of these dots on the lower half of the body ; an indefinite 

 oblong blotch on middle of spinous dorsal ; base of vertical fins with a 

 few dark spots. Length about 8 inches. 



199. Cichlasoma bartoni (Bean). 



Acara bartoni Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1892, pi. XLIV, fig. 3, 



286; Huasteca Potosina, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 

 Cichlasoma bartoni Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 



1896, 1515. 

 Heros labridens Pellegrin, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1903, 120; 



Huasteca Potosi. 



Basin of the Rio Panuco. (Rio Verde.) 



Head 2^; depth 2^2 ; D. xv or xvi, loor n ; A. v, 9; scales 7-30-11. 

 Body elongate, rather deep, compressed; profile convex, not very 



