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Color olivaceous, no spots or bars; vertical fins slightly dusky. One 

 female 90 mm. in length contained 142 eggs. None of the eggs showed 

 eye spots. 



This description is based on several specimens 50 to 90 mm. in 

 I length. Several males 46 to 62 mm.. show head 3.8 to 3.9; depth 3.1 to 

 3.6; eye 2.8 to 3.1 in head; snout 2.9 to 3.2; pectoral 1.3 to 1.4; modified 

 anal i.o to i.i. The anal fin is forward and contains rays i, 6; the 

 two anterior branched rays form the modified portion of the fin. The 

 dorsal fin of the males is not enlarged as is usually the case in the vivi- 

 parous species of this family. 



It inhabits rocky streams. 



Cichlasoma tuba sp. nov. 



Type No. 7581, F. M. N. H.; length 222 mm.; Victoria, Costa Rica. 

 Head 3.3 to 3.6; depth 2.5 to 2.9; D. XVI, 13 or 14; A. IV, 9; scales 



33- 



Body elongate, compressed, the anterior profile convex; mouth 

 small the margin of the upper lip on level with upper third of base of 

 pectoral; upper jaw the longer; teeth with blunt tips, more conspicuous 

 in larger specimens; lips thick, in some specimens developed as fleshy 

 lobes, fold of lower lip free; maxillary not reaching eye, its length 3.0 

 to 3.5 in head; eye 4.2 to 4.8; snout 2.2 to 2.5; preorbital 3.8 to 4.0; 

 postorbital 2.4 to 2.6; gill rakers short and blunt, 3 + 9; origin of dorsal 

 fin slightly behind pectorals, its spinous portion low, the fourth or fifth 

 spine 3.0 to 3.9 in head; anal base 4.6 to 5.1 in body, its spines 4, very 

 exceptionally 3 or 5; second spine 2.7 to 3.1 in head; pectorals short 4.1 

 to 4.6 in body; ventrals 4.2 to 5.0; caudal peduncle 1.9 to 2.1; 4 scales 

 between the lateral line and the middle of the dorsal ; caudal fin lunate, 

 the dorsal and anal rays not produced, their tips scarcely to base of 

 caudal. 



Color dark olivaceous, sides with 6 to 8 vertical bars, the first one 

 near tip of pectoral, soft dorsal and caudal with faint spots. Taken in 

 clear running water. 



Cichlasoma spilotum sp. nov. 



J Type No. 7586, F. M. N. H.; length 148 mm.; Victoria, Costa Rica. 



I ■ Head 3.3 to 3.5; depth 2.3 to 2.6; D. XIX or XX, 9 or 10; A. VIII or 



IX, 7; scales 33 to 35. 



Body elongate, compressed, profile steep, snout blunt; mouth small, 



subinferior, the margin of the upper lip on level with upper third of 



base of pectoral; fold of lower lip broadly interrupted in the middle; 



maxillary not reaching vertical from anterior margin of the eye, its 



