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Table 6. — CourU$ recorded for Pterengraulis* OTid Hildebrandichthys 



1 The counts for all but four specimens of P. athennoides were kindly furnished me by Dr. Samuel F. 

 Hildebrand from his original notes accumulated during his studies of the American Engraulldae. I take 

 this opportunity to express my gratitude to him for this and other help furnished. 



Table 6. — Counts made on species of Lycengraulis from Venezuela 



LYCENGRAULIS BATESH (Gttnther) 



EngrauUs batesii Gunther, Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, vol. 7, 

 p. 399, 1868 (Rio Pard). — Hildebrand, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., vol. 8, 

 art. 2, p. 148, fig. 67, 1943 (Rio Apure at San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela). 



U.S.N. M. No. 119814, 2 specimens, 42.5 and 62.5 mm. in standard length, 

 from Rio Apure, San Fernando de Apure, F. F. Bond, February 16, 1938. 

 From same collection as U.S.N. M. No. 119814, 8 specimens, 20 to 70 mm. 



LYCENGRAUUS UMNICHTHYS, new speciea 



Figure 8 



Holotype.—\J.S,NM. No. 121751, 92 mm. in standard length, 

 collected by Leonard P. Schultz on May 1, 1944 in the KIo Agua 

 Cahente, 2 to 3 km. above Lago de Maracaibo, Venezuela. 



Paratypes. — All paratypes were collected by Leonard P. Schultz 

 during 1942 in the Maracaibo Basiu of Venezuela: 



U.S.N. M. No. 121752, 59 specimens, 40 to 128 mm. in standard length, collected 

 along with the holotype and bearing same data, 



U.S.N. M. No. 121756, 1 specimen, 117 mm., taken in gill net, in Lago de Mara- 

 caibo, 1 km. off Pueblo Viejo, April 7-9. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121758, 6 specimens, 88 to 118 mm., from Lago de Maracaibo at 

 Yacht Club, Maracaibo, May 16. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121753, 40 specimens, 24 to 121 mm., from Lago de Maracaibo 

 near mouth of Rio Concha, May 2. 



