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5. Farlowella amazona (Giintber). 



6. Farlowella acus (Kner). 



Lorkaria scolopacina Filippi. 



II. Hemiodontichthys Bleeker. 



7. Hemiodontichthys acipenserinus (Kner). 



Localities: Mauacapiiru; Hj^avary. 



III. LoKiCAEiA Linnaeus. 



Sturisoma Swainson; Hemiodon Kner; Loricariichthys, 

 Pseudoloricaria, Parahemiodon, Heiniloricaria , PseiidoJiemio- 

 don, Bmeloricaria and Oxyloricaria Bleeker. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES OF LORICARIA. 



I. Loricaria iDlatyura Miiller and Troscliel. II. Hem- 

 iloricaria caracasensis Bleeker. III. Loricaria hraiirfordi 

 Gill. IV. Loricaria cadece Hensel. 



^ Hemiodon. 



8. Loricaria depressa Kuer. 



9. Loricaria panamensis sp. nov. 



Type, No. 8126; oue specimen, .95 m, to base of caudal. Panama. 

 Dr. Hernberg. 



Body little depressed. No keels on the head or on the 

 nuchal plates. Shields and scales hispid; a large naked 

 area about the mouth. 



Orbit without a notch, 4 in the snout, 7 in head, If in 

 interorbital. 



Teeth fine, numerous in both jaws. 



Five series of plates on the belly; anal plate as long as 

 broad; lateral keels remaining distinct to the caudal fin, 

 approximated at about the sixteenth lateral scute. 



Distance of dorsal fin from tip of snout 3|in the length ; first 

 dorsal ray very high; little less than its distance from the 

 tip of the snout. 



Caudal forked, the outermost rays greatly produced. 



