2834 Bulleti7i //, United States National Museum. 



slender. Eye longer than suont, not quite \ of head, 3 of interorhital 

 space. Forehead flat. Dorsal origin somewhat nearer to end of snout 

 than to end of caudal, opposite first ray of anal on females. Anal of male 

 advanced, between the ventrals, which are elongate; anal process as long 

 as the head, without hooks. Caudal large, rather longer than head, 

 ol»tusely rounded; free portion of tail somewhat elongate, base of anal 

 being \ of its distance from the caudal; ventrals reaching anal; pecto- 

 rals as long as the head, not reaching ventrals. Female yellowish olive, 

 scales with a narrow blackish edge, belly silvery, trunk above the belly 

 blackish. Male with 2 l)rown streaks along the trunk, sometimes conflu- 

 ent into a band, a brown streak along the middle of the side of the tail, 

 a round black spot behind the shoulder, another at the commencement of 

 the caudal streak, and a third at the root of the caudal; 1 or 2 of these 

 spots may be absent. Trinidad; Venezuela (reticulatus, netted). 



The male from Venezuela difl^ers in color from those from Trinidad. It 

 has large silvery patches between the brown streaks, and a large ovate 

 black spot in the middle of the side of the tail. (Giinther.) 



Note.— The following is tlie original description: "Griingelblieh mit einem scbwarzen 

 Netzwerk, desseu Maschcii den Iviindcrn der Scliuppen parallel liegen, am Bauclie silbrig. 

 Scluippen in 7 Liings- iiud in 1!7 (jlucrrcihen; obwohl einige derselljen dnichbohrt erscbei- 

 nen, ist docb koine deutlicbe Seiteulinie zu sehen. Gauze Lange 39, Htibe 9, L.inge dea 

 Kopfes 7 Millimeter. D. 8 ; A. 10. Caracas ; in dem Guayre-Flusse von GoUner gesam- 

 melt." 



Paecilia reticulata, Petkrs, Monatsb. Berl. Ak. 1859, 412, Caracas; Garman, Cyprino- 



donts, 63, 1895. 

 Giiardinus gtippii, Gunther, Cat., \1, 353, 186C, Trinidad; Venezuela; Eigknmann, 



Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 65. 

 Oirardinus vandepolli. Van Lindth de .Teude, Notes from Leyden Museum, ix, 137, 1887, 



Curasao, one of the Leeward Islands. 

 Poecilia vandepolli anihensis, Van Lindth de Jeude, Notes from Leyden Museum, ix, 



137, 1887, Aruba, one of the Leeward Islands. 

 Poecilia hranneri, Eigenmann, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci. 1894, 629. 



Page 697. Garman refers Poecilia elom/ata, one of the best marked 

 species of large size, and marine in its habitat, to the synonymy of P. 

 (/illii. This is certainly wrong, as is also the reference to P. giUii of P. 

 chisoyeiisis and P. houcardi. 



P. mclanogasier is probably correctly referred to P. dominiccnsis. 



Page 698. Add : 



1037(a). PffiCILIA CUNEATA, Garman. 



B. 5; D. 8 to 10; A. 10 or 9; V. fi; P. 15 or 1(1; scales 28 or 29-9. Short 

 and deep; caudal pedicel deep. Head depressed, broad, flat on the crown, 

 equaling depth between dorsal and anal, or i of the length to the base of 

 the caudal; snout as long as the eye, broad, truncate; chin short, steep; 

 mouth wide, directed upward; jaws weak, loosely joined, lower short, 

 upper shorter, protractile; outer series of teeth slender, oar-shaped, 

 hooked, movable; inner in bands, small, pointed; eye large, as long as 

 snout, i of interorbital space, t of head. Dorsal larger than anal, origin 

 midway from head to base of caudal, over third ray of anal, 13 scales 

 behind the occiput. Anal small, acute angled, third ray longest; on the 



