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U.S.N.M. No. 121649, 7 specimens, 13 to 33 mm., pond tributary to Rfo G6, 

 near Rosario, L. P. Schultz, W. W. Butcher, and B. C. Refshauge, March 8, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121636, 16 specimens, 32 to 74 mm., Rio Gudrico and tributaries, 

 between San Sebastidn and San Casimiro, L. P. Schultz, G. Zuloaga, William 

 Phelps, Jr., and R. Sherman, May 12, 1942. 



The following collections were made by Brother Niceforo Maria in 

 the Catatumbo system of the Maracaibo Basin: 



U.S.N.M. No. 100780, 1 specimen, 21 mm., Cucuta, Colombia. 



U.S.N.M. No. 101618, 1 specimen, 109 mm., Rio Pamplonita, near Cucuta. 



I have examined the five specimens, 64 to 75 mm., from Caripito, 

 collected by Dr. William Beebe, March 21, 1942, and reported upon 

 by him (1943b) as A. tetramerus and I refer them to this species. 



The Chicago Natural History Museum lent for report one specimen, 

 their No. 42009, Rio CogoUo, Sierra Perijd, Osgood and Conover, 

 March 1920. 



Color when alive consisted of several short irregular iridescent blue 

 wavy lines below eye on operculum and lower side of head; the scales 

 on front of body have bluish iridescent reflections; there is an orange 

 tinge in the pale interspaces between the blackish vertical bars. 



Genus PETENIA Giinther 



Petenia Gunther, Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, vol. 4, p. 301, 



1862. (Genotype, Petenia splendida Gunther.) 

 Coquetaia Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 97, p. 133, 1945. 



(Genotype, Coquetaia amploris Fowler.) 



PETENIA ERAUSSn Steindachner 



Petenia kraussii Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 39, p. 28, 

 pi. 1, figs. 2, 3, pi. 2, fig. 1, la, lb, 1878 (Rfo Magdalena). — Pellegrin, 

 Mem. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 16, p. 244, 1903 (Maracaibo). 



Cichlosoma kraussi Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 16, p. 339, 1905 

 (Venezuela) . 



Cichlasoma kraussi Myers, Stanford Ichthyol. Bull., vol. 2, No. 4, p. 114, 1942 

 (Quebrada Sargento tributary to Rio Lim6n, north of Maracaibo). 



U.S.N.M. No. 121625, 4 specimens, 71 to 127 mm. in standard length, Rio 

 San Juan near bridge south of Lagunillas, March 17 and 20, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121628, 6 specimens, 35 to 103 mm., Lago de Maracaibo at 

 Yacht Club, in brackish water, February 27 and March 5, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121632, 2 specimens, 89 and 101 mm., Rio San Pedro at bridge 

 south of Lagunillas, March 20, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121627, 8 specimens, 18 to 130 mm., Rfo Ap6n about 35 km. 

 south of Rosario, February 26, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121626, 78 specimens, 16 to 110 mm., Rfo Machango at bridge 

 south of Lagunillas, March 16, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121633, 4 specimens, 77 to 118 mm., Sahna Rica, 5 km. north 

 of Maracaibo in brackish water, February 20, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121634, 1 specimen, 21 mm., Rfo Agua Caliente, 2 to 3 km. above 

 Lago Maracaibo, May 1, 1942. 



