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STRIPED PLATYSTOMA. 



Platystoma tigrinum, Valenc. 



PLATE VIII. 



Le Platystome tigre, Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. xv. p, 40.—. 

 Macusi, Corutto ; Arawaak, Colite ; Carib, Oronni ; L. 

 Geral, Surubim. Schomb. Drawings, No. 12. 



On comparing the drawing before us with the de- 

 scriptions in the Hist. Nat. des Poissons of P. 

 tigrinum and D'Orhigianum^ together with the 

 plate of the latter given in the Atlas to D'Or- 

 bigny's work, we agree with Valenciennes in con- 

 sidering them varieties of each other. The spotting 

 of D'Orbigny's figure and the description of P. 

 tigrinum is just filled up by our plate, on which 

 there is also seen a greater proportion of the white 

 accompanying and relieving the black stripes ; the 

 spotting extends also to the lower fins. Our notes 

 observe, 



"■' This delicious and beautiful fish abounds in 

 most of the rivers of Guiana ; its flesh, like that of 

 the tiger-fish (Plate V.), is yellowish,^ but well- 

 flavoured. The body is elongated, cranium hard, 

 snout long and flat, and deeply serrated. The eyes 



