EIGENMANN— SIXTEEN NEW PYGIDIID^. 701 



Head 5-5.75; D. 10. 5-1 1.5; A. 7.5 or 8.5 counting the rudi- 

 mentary rays; P. 7 or 8; eye in middle of the head or sHghtly fur- 

 ther forward ; interocular 3-3.33 in the length of the head. Teeth 

 conic, in bands. 



Nasal barbel very little shorter than maxillar}- barbel which 

 reaches to the base of the pectoral and is equal to the head in length ; 

 pectoral rays equal to length of head behind the nasal barbels, the 

 first ray with the filament longer than the head ; ventrals reaching 

 to or just beyond the vent ; origin of ventrals equidistant from base 

 of middle caudal rays and a point between the posterior nares and 

 the area just behind the eyes ; origin of anal under posterior part 

 of dorsal ; distance between base of last anal ray and middle caudal 

 rays four and one half to five and one third in the length ; caudal 

 subtruncate or rounded, very little longer than head ; origin of dorsal 

 over posterior half of ventrals ; distance between origin of dorsal 

 and base of middle caudal rays 1.54 in its distance from the snout. 



Ten to fourteen large spots along the middle of the sides, an 

 irregular series of much smaller ones below it. Large spots above 

 the median series, frequently alternating with it, sometimes partly 

 confluent into a longitudinal series, sometimes forming with a mid- 

 dorsal series irregular bars across the back. 



15. Vandellia sanguinea spec. nov. 



7082 C, type, 62 mm. San Antonio de Rio ^Madeira. Nov. 3, 1909. 

 Haseman. 



Head 11.66; depth 12; D. 4 -j- 8.5 ; A. 3 + 7; P. 7; nearly the 

 entire eye in the anterior half of the head, a little more than four 

 in the length of the head to the tip of the opercular spines. 



Maxillary barbel extending to the tip of the interopercular 

 spines, two in the head; the lower barbel minute, only about half 

 a millimeter long as compared with the 2.5 mm. of the maxillary 

 barbel ; two, flat, recurved teeth on the end of the maxillary con- 

 cealed just in front of the barbel ; five premaxillary teeth gradu- 

 ated from the long middle one to the minute lateral ones ; the 

 mandibles widely separated from each other, each with about 

 five minute teeth ; the teeth concealed by the lip ; five spines in the 



