306 FISHES OF WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA 
417. Leporinus WoLre! Fowler 
Leporinus wolfei Fowler, 1939 (1940), Proce. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila., XCI, 261, fig. 58. 
Bajo Ucayali at Boca Chica 
Two specimens, type and paratype, 110 and 148 mm., in the Morrow collection 
at the Philadelphia Academy. Near L. alternans, but lacking the indistinct lighter 
bands which characterize that species. 
The fish while nuzzling its way through the fence agi- 
tates the brush and thus directs the aim of the fisherman’s harpoon. 
418. LePpORINUS MULLERI Steindachner 
Leporinus miller? Steindachner, 1876, Sitzb. KIx. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LX XIV, 105, pl. ix, fig. 5; 
Eigenmann, 1910, Rept. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, III, 426; 
Borodin, 1929, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., L, 281. 
Rios Orinoco, Solimoes, Maranon 
419. LeportInus MEGALEPIS Giinther 
Leporinus megalepis Giinther, 1863, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3), XII, 443; 
Giinther, 1864, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., V, 307; 
