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MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



Species and Number of Specimens from a Trench in the Botanic 



Garden. 

 It would seem from this list that the bulk of the fauna is composed of seven 

 out of the twenty-three species. 



SlLURID^. 



1. Rhamdia sebse 



2. Pimelodus clarias .... 



Callichthyid^. 



3. Hoplosternum littorale 2 



4. Hoplosternum thoracatum 1 



LORICARIID.*;. 



5. Plecostomus hemiurus . . . 



6. Loricariichthys bninncus. 



Characid^. 



7. Curimatopsip macrolepis 1 



8. Curimatus schomburgki 3 



9. Pristclla riddlei 233^^ 



10. Hemigrammus rodwayi 112 



11. Pa?cilurichthys bimaculatus 122 



12. Ctenobrycon spilurus about 800 



13. Charax gibbosus 630 



14. Acestrorhynchus microlepis 6 



15. Hoplias malabaricus 6 



Gymnotid^e. 



16. Gymnotus carapo 1 



17. Sternopygus macrurus 104 



18. Eigenmannia lineata 155 



Cichlid.'e. 



19. Cichlasoma bimaculatum 17 



20. Mesonauta festivum 12 



21. Geophagus jurupari 1 



22. Crenicichla saxatilis 3 



POLYCENTRID^. 



23. Polycentrus schomburgki 39 



Species and Number of Specimens from a Small Brook on Gluck 



Island. 



ChARACIDjE. 



ASPREDINID^. 



1. Bunocephalus chamaizelus 6 



2. Agmus lyriformis 1 



SlLXJRID^. 



3. Rhamdia sebse 14 



4. Doras costatus 4 



5. Doras haneocki 12 



6. Doras cataphractus 20 



Callichthyid^. 



7. Hoplosternum thoracatum 74 



Loricariidte. 



8. Plecostomus hemiurus 1 



9. Xenocara gymnorhynchus . 1 



10. Loricariichthys brunneus 24 



1 1 . Heniiodontichthys acipenserinus . . 1 



12. Curimatopsis macrolepis 3 



13. Curimatus spilurus 15 



14. Chilodus punctatus 1 



15. Hemiodus maculofasciatus 1 



16. Anisitsia notatus 2 



17. Pyrrhulina filamentosa 22 



18. Nannostomus marginatus 5 



19. Pcecilobrycon trifasciatus 8 



20. Pcecilobrycon erythrurus 4 



21. Pcecilobrycon ocellatus 9 



22. Characidium pellucidmn 2 



23. Leporinus nigrotteniatus 2 



24. Iguanodcctes tenuis 4 



25. Moenkhausia lepidurus 8 



26. Moenkhausia colletti 12 



«- From the Georgetown trenches only eight specimens were taken. 



