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An intense black spot, about as large as the pupil, on the second to fourth or 



fifth row of scales above the lateral line, and from above the sixth to the ninth pore 



of the latter; a diffuse dark area at the end of the caudal peduncle; a silvery 



lateral band. 



Charax Scopoli. 



Charax Gronow, Mus. Ichth., I, 1754, 10 (containing the modern Characinus 



gibbosus and Poecilurichthys bimaculatus) . — Scopoli, Intr. Hist. Nat., 1777, 455. 

 Characinus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1802, 269 (sp.). — Swainson, Class. 



Fishes, Amph., and Kept., H, 1829, 289 {(jihbosus).—G\iA., Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., XVin, 1895, 213 (gibbosus). 

 Epicyrtus MtJLLER and Troschel, Hora^ Ichth., I, 1845, 17 (gibbosus). 

 Anacyrtus Gijnther, Catalogue, V, 1864, 345 (gibbosus and pauciradiatus) . 



Type, Salmo gibbosus Linna?us. 



Premaxillary with a feeble canine at each end and a double row of teeth 

 between; lower jaw with two feeble canines and a series of conical teeth; anal very 

 long; lateral line complete; fins naked; breast flat, bordered by the blade-like 

 lower edges of the clavicles, which end in a spine in front and behind. 



255. Charax gibbosus (Linnseus). (Plate LX, fig. 3.) 

 "Charax 53," Gronow, Mus. Ichth., I, 1754, 19, pi. 1, fig. 4; Zoophyl., 1763, 124, 



No. 380. 

 Salmo gibbosus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 311, No. 19; ed. 12, I, 1766, 



513 (Surinam). — Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 419. 

 Epicyrtus gibbosus MtJLLER and Troschel, Horse Ichth., I, 1845, 17, pi. 2, fig. 1; 



in Schomburgk, Reisen, III, 1848, 635 (Lower Essequibo). 

 Cynopotamus gibbosus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XXII, 1848, 



321, pi. 645 (Mana; Essequibo; Amazon). — Castelnau, Anim. Am. Sud, 



Poiss., 1855, 75 (Amazon; Ucayale). — Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., XXII, 1890, 



11 (Coary; Cudajas; I§a; Javary; Jutahy; Lake Hyamary; Manacapuru; 



Manaos; Obidos; Porto do Moz; Rio Negro; Silva, Lake Saraca; Surinam; 



Tabatinga) . 

 Anacyrtus gibbosus GDnther, Catalogue, V, 1864, 346 (Surinam; British Guiana). 



— Eigenmann and Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 57. — 



Perugia, Ann. Mus. Genova, (2), X, viii, 1897, 26 (Rio Beni). 

 Charax gibbosus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1906, 453 (Surinam). — 



Eigenmann and Ogle, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXIII, 1907, 32 (Guiana; 



Paraguay). — Eigenmann, Repts. Princeton Univ. Exp. Patagonia, III, 1910, 



444. 



