rangement and shape of the teeth. Dr. Eigenmann (1907, 
p. 425) first used the former characters in defining genera 
of Poecilliids. He examined microscopically the anals, of a 
number of species, and among others based the genera Pha- 
loceros and Phalloptychus on theses characters...» (p. 94). 
MEMORIAS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 
vol. VII, pp. 1 ss. 
Eigenmann, Carl. H.: The Cheirodontinae, a subfa- 
mily of Minute Characid fishes of South America. ) 
«... There are twenty-one genera and fifty — six 
species and varities of Cheirodontinae now known. In the 
present paper seven genera and seventeen species for the 
first time are described. In all I have at one time or ano- 
ther described fourteen genera and thirty — three species...» 
Annals of the Carnegie Museum. —- vol. IX, pp. 92 ss. 
— Cockerell, T. D. A.: The Seales of the South American 
Characinid Fishes ( Plates XXITI-XXVIIT ). 
«... The American Characinids are not -only much 
more numerous, but also very much more diverse than those 
of Africa...» 
Annals of the Carnegie Museum. vol. VIII, pp. 384-413. 
Ellis, Marion Durbin: The Plated Nematognaths. 
«In the following pages are given a list of all known 
species of the Callichthyidx, the « Sopra Serras », « Casca- 
duras », or « Hassars » as they are called by the natives of 
South America, and lists of the specimens at present in the 
collection of the Carnegie Museum and of the Indiana Uni- 
versity. . . I have given a reference to the first description 
of each species, and, if this is incomplete, a reference to a 
better one >. (p. 384). 
Ibidem. vol. XI. pp. 297 — 302. — Ezgenmann, C. H. 
and Vance, Lola: Some species of Farlowella. — « ... Ran- 
ge. — Paraguay, Amazon, etc... The genus Farlowella was 
reviewed in Eigenmann & Eigenmana. « Occasional Papers 
of the California Academy of Sciences », vol. I, 1890, pp. 
355-358, and by Regan, « Transactions of the Zoological 
Society », London, vol. XVII, part III, 1904, pp. 302 — 305. 
The most notable contribution since the last mentioned mo- 
nographs is in Steindachner’s paper describing the new spe- 
cies nattereri, boliviana and pseudogladiolus in the Anna- 
len des K.K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Wien, 1910, 
pp. 403 —406. 
The known species of the genus Farlowella may be 
distinguished by the following key: «( p. 297.) 
AMPHIBIOS. — (BATKACHIA ) 
Proceedings of the Ac. of Nat. Sc. of Philadelphia, 
vol. LXVIT 1915. 
