Haseman : Exi'EDrnoN to Ckntrai, South America. 351 



No. 2700, 3.5 cm., Manaos, Nov. 30, l()09. 



Crcnicichla protcits (Cope) is a sxiioiiyin of C. saxatilis. 



42. Crenicichla saxatilis lucius Cope. 

 Xo specimens were obtained. 



43. Crenicichla jaguarensis, s]i. no v. (Plate LX.) 



No. 2723, type, 5.2 cm., Jai^uara, Rio Grande of the Parana, Minas, 



Aug. 18, 1908. 

 No. 2724, cotype, 4.3 cm., taken at the same place and date. 



It has four anal spines. 



D. XIX, II; A. Ill, 8, and IV, 7; depth 4.67; head 3; eye 4.33 in 

 head, equal to the snout in ihe smaller specimen and two-thirds of it 

 in the larger one, equal to the interorbital space in both; three series 



22— 2t 



of teeth in the lower jaw, and four in the upper; pores — ; 



10-12 



fift\- to tift\-two scales in the first series below the lateral line; maxil- 

 laries extending to, or a little beyond, the anterior margins of the 

 eyes; nostrils nearer the eyes than to the tip of the snout; depth 

 of preorbital one-half the diameter of the eye; scales denticulated, 

 excepting on the head and the lower part of the abdomen and thorax; 

 two to two and a half rows of scales between the lateral line and the 

 last dorsal spine, and two rows between the lateral lines; six or seven 

 gill-rakers on the lower anterior arch; last dorsal spine about half the 

 length of the head; caudal peduncle as long as deep; soft dorsal and 

 anal not extending beyond the base of the caudal; pectorals two-thirds, 

 and the ventrals tive-eighths, the length of the head. 



Brownish, with a black band around the snout and continued 

 back of the eye on the operculum and indistinctly on the sides of 

 the body, where it breaks up into about eleven short median cross- 

 bars; the dorsal fin with two or three irregular series of dark spots; 

 the anal and caudal with a few indistinct spots; all of the fins more or 

 less dark-edged; a dark bar beneath the eye, slanting back toward the 

 middle of the preoperculum; no spot above the pectorals; a very faint 

 caudal spot at the end of the broken lateral line. 



This species resembles C. lacnstris more than either C. saxatilis 

 or lepidota, but, as the description shows, it is as ditiferent from these 

 three species as they are from each other. 



44. Crenicichla lacustris Castelnau. 



No. 2701, 8.5 cm., Xiririca, Rio Ribeira da Iguape, Dec. 8, 1908. 

 No. 27020-^, 7.2-11.5 cm., Morretes, Parana, Jan. 4, 1909. 



