310 CHARACINID^. 



12. Leporinus melanopleura. 

 D. 12. A. 11. V. 10. L. lat. 35-37. L. transv. f . 



The height of the body is contained four times in the total length 

 (without caudal), the length of the head four times and one-third. 

 Eye rather small, one-fifth of the length of the head, occupying its 

 middle. Teeth subtrancated, with brown tips. The origin of the 

 dorsal fin is a little nearer to the extremity of the snout than to the 

 root of the caudal fin. The pectoral terminates at a great distance 

 from the ventral. Brownish green above, yellowish below ; a broad 

 black band, occupying one series of scales and two halves, ruus from 

 the gill-opening, immediately below the lateral line, to the root of 

 the caudal. Fins immaculate. 



Brazil. 



a-b. Five inches long. Bahia. From Dr. 0. Wucherer's Collection. 

 c. Five inches long : skin. Cipo lliver. Presented by Ch. Cumber- 

 land, Esq. 



13. Leporinus striatus. 



Kner, Denkschr. Acad. Wiss. Wien, 1859, xvii. p. 171. taf. 8. fig. 18. 

 D. 10-11. A. 9. V. 9. L. lat. 35-36. L. transv. 5/4. 



The height of the body is more than the length of the head, which 

 is two-ninths of the total (without caudal) ; the eye is one-fourth 

 of the length of the head, and occupies its middle. The origin of 

 the dorsal fin is nearer to the extremity of the snout than to the 

 root of the caudal. The pectoral terminates at some distance from 

 the ventral. A blackish band runs from the angle of the mouth 

 along the lateral line to the posterior mai'gin of the caudal ; a second, 

 more indistinct, from above the gill-opening to the adipose fin ; a 

 third, also indistinct, from the occiput to the dorsal fin. {Kner.) 



Irisanga and Caigara in Matogrosso. 



14. Leporinus vittatus. 



Leporinus vittatus, Cuv. ^ Vol. xxii. p. 3.3 ; Casteln. Anini. Amh: Sud, 



Poiss. pi. 29. fig. 3. 

 pictus, Kner, Denkschr. Acad. Wiss. Wien, 1859, xvii. p. 1 72. taf. 8. 



fig. 19. 



D. 11. A. 10. V. 9. L. lat. 42-45. L. transv. 5/4. 



Body rather elongate ; teeth truncated ; basal portion of the caudal 

 fin scaly. Head with blackish dots ; each scale on the back with a 

 black spot at the base ; an indistinct blackish band along the lateral 

 Une ; each lobe of the caudal fin with two oblique black bands ; dorsal 

 with a black cross-band. 



Eio Araguay ; Irisanga. 



