134 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



29. Poecilia branneri Eigenmann. 

 Pcecilia branneri Eigenmann, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., VII, 1894, p. 629. (Santarem, 



Para); Eigenmann, Repts. Princeton Univ. Exp. Patagonia, III, 1910, p. 460; 



Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913, p. 1007. 

 Pcecilia heteristia Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) Vol. Ill, 1909, p. 235 (Para); 



Eigenmann, Repts. Princeton Univ. Exp. Patagonia, III, 1910, p. 460. 



No specimens were secured by Haseman. 



I have examined the typical specimens; one male, 22 mm., five 

 females, 16-25 mm., Nos. 5082 and 5084, I. U. M. Four of the females 

 are in a very poor state of preservation. 



This species differs from Lebistes reticidatus Peters, with which it 

 was considered identical by Garman (The Cyprinodonts, p. 62) in 

 the male anal structure, fin formulae, and coloration. 



P. branneri has D. 7; A. 8; V. 6; P. 13. 



L. reticulatiis has D. 6-7; A. 10; V. 6; P. 12. 



In P. branneri both sexes have a single vertical oblong spot at the 

 base of the caudal; in L. reticidatus only the males possess spots, these 

 number two or three, vary in location, and are usually circular. 



In the single male of P. branneri, the last two rays of the dorsal are 

 greatly prolonged and extend over the middle of the caudal. In 

 males of L. reticulatiis, the dorsal is normal. 



Head 3.8; equal to depth at origin of dorsal; caudal peduncle 5.4 in 

 length. Eye about 3 in head. 



Dorsal origin posterior to that of anal, about in the middle of total 

 length. Ventrals lanceolate (in females), reaching almost to origin of 

 anal. Caudal rounded. 



Genus Lebistes Filippi. 



Lebistes Filippi, Arch. Zool. Anat. Fisiol., Vol. I, 1861, p. 69. 



Acanthophacelus Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXXII, 1907, p. 426, 



fig- I- 



30. Lebistes reticulatus (Peters). 

 Pcecilia reticulata Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1859, p. 412; Garman, Mem. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. XIX, 1895, p. 62. 

 Lebistes reticulatus Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913, p. 1008. 



Through the kindness of the late Dr. S. E. Meek, of the Field 

 Museum of Natural History of Chicago, I have been enabled to ex- 

 amine the specimens recorded by him as Girardinus vandepolli (Van 

 Lidth de Jeude) from Curagao, an island of the Dutch West Indies 

 (Pubs. Field Col. Mus., 1909, Zool. Series, Vol. VII, No. 7, p. 209). 



