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tliaii the Porto Alegre siicciinens; all liave scales on the cliccks and 

 nearly all have a bar through the e>e, faint bars and a spot on the 

 sides. (Some of Cope's specimens labeled G. brachyunis belong to 

 this species. G. cam urns is also a synonNni.) 

 74. Geophagus daemon Heckel. 



G. aculiceps Ileckcl. 

 No. 2842, 5.3 cm., Manaos, Nov. 29, 1909. 



Twenty-one gill-rakers on lower anterior arch; depth 2.5; head 3; 

 eye equal to the interorbital, a little more than the preorbital and a 

 little less than the snout, all of which are about one-third of length of 

 head; seven rows of scales on cheeks; A. Ill, 8; D. XIII, 12; scales 

 5-28-9 (in a median lateral series) ; caudal peduncle one and one-fourth 

 times as long as deep; the pectoral fin reaching to anal; dorsal spines 

 about subequal from the fifth, which is about two-thirds as long 

 as the head; soft dorsal and anal not scaly at base; fold of upper lip 

 continuous (another case where the fold of the lower lip is not of diag- 

 nostic character); caudal fin truncate; two rows of scales between 

 lateral line and first dorsal rays. Olivaceous, with seven more or 

 less distinct cross-bands and a faint caudal spot; soft dorsal and caudal 

 with faint white and dark bars and spots; three or four spots in soft 

 anal. 

 No. 2843a, 13 cm.; Manaos, November 27, 1909, 



D. XIII, 11; A. Ill, 7; depth 2.5; head 3; pores - ; twenty-nine 



scales in a median lateral series; pectoral fiii reaching past anal spines 

 and much longer than the head; snout about 2 in head; interorbital 

 space 3 in head; preorbital equal to the eye; caudal peduncle distinctly 

 longer than deep; anal, ventral, and dorsal rays prolonged, those of 

 soft dorsal reaching far beyond the tip of caudal and about four-fifths 

 of the length of the body to base of caudal; two silvery blue lines from 

 eye to mouth and several blue s^ots on head and scales of sides of 

 body; soft vertical fins with bars and spots; a caudal spot; gill-arches 

 in bad condition, but there are sixteen to nineteen gill-rakers on 

 lower anterior arch; last dorsal spine about the length of the head; 

 dorsal spines subequal from the fifth. 

 No. 24836, 1 1.5 cm., Manaos, Nov. 15, 1909. 



D. XIII, 12; pectoral fins much longer than the head; the dorsal 

 spines increasing to the last one, which is two-thirds the length of the 

 head; eighteen or nineteen gill-rakers on lower anterior arch; scales 



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