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of the junction of the Rupuhuni and Essequibo and started over to the Essequibo 

 and returned by way of the Bcrbice. 



4. On September 12, 1837, he again ascended the Essequibo and Rupununi 

 to the Rewa, up which he went and crossed over to the Cuyuwini, an upper tribu- 

 tary of the Essequibo. He descended it to the Essequibo, which he ascended to its 

 source. He then returned to the Rupununi about Lake Amucu,^ whence he went 

 to Fort St. Joaquin on the Takutu. He left this place on September 20, 1838, 

 sailing up the Takutu to its tributary, the Mahu, swinging from here northwestward 

 to Roraima, thence southwestward to the Parima, up this river, and then, following 

 the mountains, to Esmeralda on the Orinoco, along the Cassiquiare to the Rio 

 Negro, down this river to the Rio Branco, and up this stream back to Fort San 

 Joaquin on April 22d. He returned thence to Georgetown on June 20, 1839. 



The species he figured and noted, together with the identification of those 

 dealt with in the present work, are given in the following list. Those from the 

 northern slope are marked with an asterisk; those which have been found on the 

 northern slope since Schomburgk's day are marked f. 



Vol. I. 

 1. Acanthicus histrix Spix, p. 131, pi. 1. Rio Branco at Fort San Joaquin, 



t 2. Loricaria cataphrada Linnseus, p. 136. Locality? = Loricaria cataphrada (Linnaeus). 



3. Hypostonia plecoslomus Valenciennes, p. Rio Branco, 8 in. = Plecostomus plecosiomus 

 139. (Linnseus). 



* 4. Hypostoma squalinum Schomburgk, p. Rio Branco, Rio Negro, Essequibo. 13J^ in. = 

 142, pi. 2. Plecostomus emarginatus (Cuv. & Val.). 



5. Hypostoma pundatum Schomburgk, p. Rio Branco. 63^2 in- 



145, figure. 

 6. Hypostoma barbatus Cuv. & Val., p. 147. 



*■ 7. Callichthys longifiUs Cuv. & Val., p. 150, 



figure. 

 * 8. Callichthys ? p. 152, figure, 

 t 9. Doras costaius Lacepede, p. 155. 

 flO. Doras cataphractus Linnseus, p. 158. 

 11. Doras castaneo-ventrisSchomhxiTgk, p. 161, Pasawiri 



Loc ? 6}<4 in. = Pseudancistrus barbatus (Cuv. & 



Val.). 

 Pools, marshes, and creeks. 8 in. = Hoplosternum 



thoracatum (Cuv. & Val.). 

 Curassarraka on the Rupununi. 

 12 in. = Doras costaius (Linnseus). 

 Rio Negro. = Doras cataphractus (Linnseus). 



7 in. = "? Doras cataphractus (Liimseus). 



pi. 3. 

 *12. Doras brunnescens Schomburgk, p. 163. Upper Essequilio. 5 in. = ? Doras cataphractus 



(Linnseus) . 



13. Doras niger Valenciennes, p. 165. Esmeralda. = Oxydoras niger (Val.). 



14. Doras, p. 166. Orooporary on the Essequibo. 



' In recent works this word is speUed Amacu. 



