EIGENMANN: THE PYGIDIID/E, A FAMILY OF SOUTH AMERICAN CATFISHES. 361 



Soc. Lond., XIV, 1898, p. 42G; Jobert, Archiv. Parasit, I, 1898, p. 494; Pelle- 

 grin, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris (10), I, 1909, p. ? (Apure, Manaos); Eigenmann, 

 Reports Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, III, 1910, p. 401; Ribeiro, Comm. 

 de Linhas Telegraphicas Estrategicas de Matto-Grosso ao Amazonas, Annexo 

 5, 1912, p. 30 (Manaos). 



Habitat. — Amazon and Orinoco basins; Rio Jurua; Hyavary; Manaos; Apure. 

 This fish, the bad repute of which is widespread (see page 265) in South America, 

 is represented in Museums by only the few specimens in the following list, in part 

 copied from Pellegrin: 



Jardin des Plantes, Paris, three, locality? Vandclli. 



Jardin des Plantes, Paris, one, Apure. Geay. 



Jardin des Plantes, Paris, two, Manaos. Anthony. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, one, 40 mm., Hyavary. Bourget. 



British Mus., London, ? many, Jurua. Bach. 



Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, one, 94 mm., Manaos. Ribeiro. 



Fig. 29. Vandellia cirrhosa Guvier & Valenciennes. (After Cuvier & Valenciennes.) 



Head 8-10.5 (9-11.5 including the caudal); depth 9; D. 8 9; A. 9-10; P. 6. 

 Head slightly longer than wide; eye less than 3 in the head, greater than the snout; 

 six to ten spines on the opercle, five to ten on the interopercle; five to eight teeth on 

 the premaxillary; origin of dorsal twice as far from tip of snout as from margin of 

 caudal; dorsal partly over anal. 



