15] 6 Bulletin 4-7^ U7iited States National Museum. 



fins dusky. In a specimen about 5 inches long the cheeks and snout pro- 

 fusely covered with minute roundish brown dots. Four specimens, o^ to 

 7 inches long, collected in Hauztecii Potosina, a region situated north of 

 Guanajuato, in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. (Bean.) (Named for Barton A. 

 Bean, assistant curator of ichthyology in the United States National 

 Museum, a conscientious naturalist.) 



J,car« ia*<o;r(, T.H. Bean, Proc.U. S.Nat. Mils. 1892, 286, Hauzteca Potosina, San Luis 

 Potosi, Mexico. (Type, No. 437G5. Coll. Alfredo Dugea.) 



1001. CICHLASOMA WODMANM ((Uiiitliei). 



Head 3 to 3i; depth 2|. D. XVI or XVII, 13 or V2; A. V, 9; scales 

 5-33-13. Head as high as long; snout rather elevated; preorbital wider 

 than orbit ; profile of nape much curved ; cleft of mouth rather narrow, 

 horizontal; jaws equal anteriorly; maxillary not extending backward 

 to vertical from front margin of eye; the 6 front teeth of outer series 

 the longest, deep brown; nape elevated; orbit considerably below upper 

 profile of head; opercles scaly. Dorsal and anal fins very slightly scaly 

 at base; spinous dorsal low, length of twelfth spine I that of head; soft 

 dorsal and anal somewhat produced, extending beyond root of caudal; 

 free portion of tail somewhat higher than long; caudal subtruncated, /, 

 total length; pectoral shorter than head, but rather longer than A'cntral, 

 which does not extend to vent. Head' grayish olive; cheeks and body 

 reddish olive; an irregular Idacldsh band proceeding from above pec- 

 toral to a black spot in middle of root of caudal ; a blaclv spot above 

 origin of lateral band; opercles, back, and vertical fins with black dots. 

 Length 7 inches. Guatemala. (Giinther.) (Named for its discoverer, 

 Mr. Godman.) 



Heros godmanni, Gunthee, Cat. Fishes, iv, 296, 1862, Rio de Cahabon, Guatemala (Coll. 

 Godman &. Salvin) ; GOnther, Fishes Centr. Am., 466, pi. 74, fig. 5, 1869. 



1902. CICIILASOMA SIEBOLDII (Kuer & Steindachner). 



Head 3; depth 2*; eye 4 to 5 in head. D. XVII, 11 ; A. V, 8; scales 33. 

 Body oblong, the back not much elevated; the head bluntly and evenly 

 convex; cleft of mouth terminal, not very low, as long as eye; lip 

 rather vague, its folds interrupted; 10 or 12 teeth in outer row in each 

 jaw, these larger than in most related species, somewhat compressed, 

 and with deep brown tips; 5 rows of scales on cheek; preorbital as 

 broad as eye. Dorsal sjiines rather low, the soft rays somewhat pointed; 

 caudal rounded ; pectoral short, IJ in head ; ventral about the same. Clear 

 brown, somewhat darker above; middle of each scale with a small black- 

 ish spot, these forming a dusky line along each row of scales; about 8 

 dusky crossbars formed of 2 or 3 vague, partially confluent dusky 

 shades, the lowest of these shades above level of pectoral, forming an 

 obscure row of blotches from gill opening to base of caudal; dorsal, anal, 

 and caudal with distinct dusky spots arranged in cross rows; paired fins 

 Avith lilack specks but not spotted; some black spots on sides of head. 

 Length 5 to 8 inches. Known from 11 specimens from New Grenada and 

 from the west slope of the peninsula of Panama. (Kner & Steindach- 



