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of the spine of the adipose; adipose fin long, the membrane extending to near the 

 caudal ; caudal obliquely truncate, the lower lobe much the longer, equal to snout 

 and orbit or longer; anal minute; ventrals rounded, reaching middle of anal or a 

 little farther; pectorals reaching to second third of ventral spine in the female, to 

 near its tip in the male. 



Mottled, either sand-color or quite black. All the fins more or less barred. 



Abundant, clinging to the rocks in the rapids. Secured with " Hiari," which 

 caused them to come to the surface. 



Subfamily Loricariin^. 



LoRiCARiA Linnaeus. 



Loricaria Linn^us, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, I, 1758, 307. — Bleeker, Nederl. 



Tijdschr. Dierk., I, 1863, 80 (dura). 

 Pseudohemiodon Bleeker, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., I, 1863, 81 (platycephalus) . 

 Type, Loricaria dura Linnaeus = Loricaria cataphracta Linnaeus. 

 Readily distinguished from the other Loricariids by its tentacled lips. 



109. Loricaria cataphracta Linnaeus. 



Loricaria dura (ex Linnaeus, Mus. Adolphi Fred., 1754, 79, pi. 29, figs. 1 and 2) 

 Bleeker, "Siluresde Suriname," 1864, 18 (Surinam). 



Loricaria cataphracta Linn^us, Sj^stema Naturae, ed. 10, I, 1758, 307; ed. 12, I, 

 1766, 508 (America).— Block, Ausl. Fische, VIII, 1795, 76, pi. 75, figs. 3, 4.— 

 CuviER and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XV, 1840, 459 (Surinam, 

 Cayenne). — MIiller and Troschel, in Schomburgk, Reisen, III, 1848, 631 

 (Rupununi). — Kner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, VI, 1853, 77 (Cujaba, 

 Guapore). — GtJNTHER, Catalogue, V, 1864, 255 (Surinam). — Peters, MB. 

 Akad. Wiss. Berhn, 1877, 471 (Calabozo).— Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, XVII, 

 1878, 681 (Maranon, Peru). — Eigenmann and Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Acad. 

 Sci., (2), II, 1889, 36 (Vigia; Sao Gongallo; Cameta; Manaos; Para; Rio Negro; 

 Coary; Villa Bella; Gurupa; Rio Preto; Tajapuru; Porto do Moz; Teffe, 

 Maranon; Ucayale; Obidos). — Pellegrin, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., V, 1899, 

 158 (Apure), 405 (Manaos). — Eigenmann and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XXXI, 1907, 665 (Amazon). — Eigenmann, Repts. Princeton Univ. Exp. Pata- 

 gonia, III, 1910, 415. 



Loricaria cirrhosa Block and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 125, pi. 34. 



Loricaria setifera Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 140 (South America). 



Plecostomus flagellaris Gronow, Cat. Fish, ed. Gray, 1854, 158. 



