Eigenmann : \i» Characins in Carnegii Museum. L69 



short, heavy, with a prominent chin, which i> the mosl anterior pari 

 when the mouth is closed; premaxillary with an outer series of two 

 or three teeth and an inner series oi four; maxillary with three or 

 four teeth; (lcnt.ir\ with four large teeth and several minute, conical 

 teeth on the side. Large teeth of the dentary, the maxillary teeth, 

 and those of the inner series of the premaxillary ywra-pointed. < .ill 

 akers 6 4- ( ». Dorsal rounded, its origin variable, but always 

 nearer the caudal than to the snout, its highest ray about 4.5 in the 

 length; caudal short and broad, about 4 in the length; anal emar- 

 ginate, its origin about midway between the base of the middle 

 caudal rays and the middle of the eye; ventrals just reaching the 

 anal, pectorals more or less beyond origin of the ventrals; caudal 

 fulcra sometimes turgid. Scales regularly arranged; no anal sheath; 

 a lew scales forming a flap at the base of the rays just above the 

 middle of the caudal. Lateral line developed in 11-17 pores. Cheeks 

 and opercles profusely pigmented, except just behind the eye; a dark 

 spot at origin of the lateral line, scapular p ocess dark; a dark 

 humeral band crossing the third to fifth scales of the lateral line; 

 sides nearly evenly and profusely punctate; no caudal spot; anterior 

 anal membranes sometimes black near the base; margin of caudal 

 narrowly black. 



5. Glandulocauda inequalis sp. nov. 



Plate V, fig. 5. 



Type. — One specimen, 40 mm. C. M. No. 3555. Porto Alcgrc, Jan. 19, 1909. 

 Cotypes. — Six specimens, 28 to 38 mm. C. M. No. 3556. Same place and date. 



Head 4; depth 2.7-3; D. 10; A. 27-33; scales 7-38-6; eye 3 in the 

 head, int erorbital 2.^. Compressed, prevcntral and predorsal areas 

 rounded; 15—18 scales in front of the dorsal; naked area of the cheek 

 extending somewhat between the suborbital and the preopercle 

 behind: premaxillary with an outer row of two or four teeth and an 

 inner row of lour to six depending on the arrangement of the teeth 

 toward the sides; four to six teeth in the maxillary; dentary with a 

 large tooth at the symphysis, a smaller one next to it, this followed 

 by the largest one, this by a recurved tooth, and this b\ several 

 graduated teeth; all the teeth three-pointed. Lower caudal fulcra 

 sometimes pungent spines. Pores developed on six or seven scales. 

 Cheeks and opercle silvery, with few pigment cells; .111 obscure, 

 dusky humeral band; outer halves of pectoral and ventrals dusky; 



