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U.S.N.M. No. 121685, 191 specimens, 12 to 35 mm., Rfo Charaa at Estanques, 

 Estado de M^rida, April 3, 1942, 



U.S.N.M. No. 121680, 16 specimens, 13 to 29 mm., Rfo Barregas, tributary 

 Rio Chama just below Egido, Estado de M^rida, March 29, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121678, 5 specimens, 17 to 33 mm., Rfo Chama, 10 km. below 

 Lagunillas, Estado de M^rida, March 30, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121676, 1 specimen, Rfo Palmar at bridge, 70 km. southwest of 

 Maracaibo, March 6, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 109112, 2 specimens, Pampdn, Estado de Trujillo, Venezuela, 

 Dr. Arnoldo Gabaldon, April 18, 1935. One specimen from this lot is the holo- 

 type of Hubbsichthys laurae herein described. 



U.S.N.M. No. 86264, 4 specimens, 28 to 43 mm., Valera, Estado de Trujillo, 

 Venezuela, H. Pittier, 1923. 



U.S.N.M. No. 86263, 2 specimens, 23 and 24 mm., Valera, Estado de Trujillo, 

 Venezuela, H. Pittier, 1923. 



MOLLIENISIA SPHENOPS VANDEPOLU (Van Lidth de Jende) 



Poecilia vandepolli Van Lidth de Jeude, Notes Ley den Mus., vol. 9, p. 137, 1887 



(ref. copied). 

 MolUenesia sphenops Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913, p. 1012, fig. 173 F 



(Venezuela). — Meek and Hildebrand, Publ. Field Columbian Mus. (Zool.), 



vol. 10, No. 15, p. 327, fig. 10, 1916 (Venezuela). 



U.S.N.M. No. 121687, 27 specimens, brackish cailo at Los Monitos, Rfo Lim6n 

 system, March 11, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121688, 10 specimens, Lago de Maracaibo at Yacht Club, 

 Maracaibo, February 27, 1942, 



U.S.N.M. No. 121690, 1,328 specimens, 9 to 70 mm., Salina Santa Rosa, 3 km. 

 north of Maracaibo, specific gravity 1.029, temperature 98° F., February 20, 1942. 



Order BERYCOIDEA 

 Family HOLOCENTHRIDAE: Squirrelfishes 



Genus HOLOCENTRUS Scopoli 



Holocenthrus Scopoli, Introductio historiam naturalem, p. 499, 1777. (Misprint 

 for Holocentrus after Gronow's Holocentrus maxilla.) 



HOLOCENTRUS ASCENSIONIS (Osbeck) 



Squirrelfish, Matejuelo, Candil o Cakajuelo 



Perca ascensionis Osbeck, Reise nach Ostindien und China, p. 388, 1765 (ref. 



copied) (Ascension Island). 

 Holocentrus ascensionis Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 393, fig. 202, 



1942 (coast of Venezuela). 



Order SOLENICHTHYOIDEA 

 Family FISTULARIIDAE : Trumpetfishes or Cornetfishes 



Genus FISTULARIA Linnaeus 



Fistularia Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 312, 1758. (Genotype, Fistu- 

 laria tabacaria Linnaeus.) 



