13. CEENICICHLA. 305 



the lateral line. Caudal fin truncated or slightly • larginate. The 

 height of the body is one-fourth of the total length. Jody with three 

 blackish vertical bands ; a black ocellus on the root of the caudal ; 

 sides of the belly without spots. A dark band runs from the snout, 

 through the eye, to the angle of the operculum, and is formed by a 

 series of spots on the opercle of old individuals. Immature speci- 

 mens with series of white spots on the body, on the soft dorsal and 

 caudal. 



Fresh waters of Brazil. 



a, b, c. Fine adult and half-grown specimens. River Cupai. Pur- 

 chased of Mr. Stevens. 



3. Cichla multifasciata. 



Casteln. Anim. nouv. on rares Amer. Sud, Poiss. p. 18. pi. 10. fig. 2. 



Sixteen dorsal spines ; (scales of moderate size? ;) caudal rounded. 

 The height of the body is nearly one-fifth of the total length. Body 

 with eleven oblique black cross-bands ; a black ocellus on the root of 

 the caudal. (Cast.) 



Ucayale (Peru). 



4. CicMa conibos. 



Casteln. I. c. fig. 3. 



Fourteen dorsal spines ; (scales of moderate size ?;) caudal forked. 

 The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length. Body with 

 seven obHque black cross-bands ; a black ocellus on the root of the 

 caudal. (Cast.) 



Ucayale (Peru). 



13. CRENICICHLA. 



Crenicichla, Heckel, Brasil. Fluss-Fische, in Ann. Wien.Mus. 1840, ii. 



p. 41G. 

 Batrachops, Hcckel, I. c. p. 432. 



Body depressed, low, subcylindrical ; scales small or rather small. 

 The spinous portion of the dorsal is considerably more developed than 

 the soft, both continuous, not separated by a notch ; anal spines 

 three. Prseoperculum generally minutely serrated. Each jaw with 

 a band of conical teeth, those of the outer series being sometimes 

 enlarged and separated from the others by an interspace. The outer 

 branchial arch with short, bony, tubercle-like prominences. Dorsal 

 and anal fins naked. 



Brazils. Guiana. 



1. Crenicichla obtusirostris. 



D. f^. A. ^. L. lat. 130. 



Fifteen series of scales between the origin of the dorsal fin and the 

 lateral line. Snout broad, depressed, obtuse, its length being equal 

 to the width of {he interorbital space. The height of the body 



