384 DE. GtNTHEE OX THE FISHES OF CENTEAL AMEEICA. 



DACiLVEK, who gave a preliminary account of it in ' Sitzgsber. bayer. Akad. Wiss.' 1863, 

 pp -220-230, and more detailed descriptions in 'Abhandl. bayer. Akad. Wiss.' 1864(1865), 

 „,, l-Ol. Prof. M. Wagner added, besides, a detailed account of the hydi-ographical 

 peculiarities of this part of Central America (pp. 65-92). The species treated of in 

 these Memoirs are the following : — 



1. Pristipoma humile, sp. n. 



2. Dajaus elongatus (K. & St.)=Ag(mostoma msuUim (Gthr.). 



3. Dajaus monticola (C. & V.). 



4. Acara ccerideopunctata, sp. n. 



5. Heros altifrons, sp. n. 



6. Heros sieboldii, sp. n. 



7. Meotris pictus, sp. n. 



8. Engraulis macrolepidotus, sp. n. 



9. poey?-, sp. n. 



10. Xijjhophorus gillii, K. & St., = P(edlia, sp. ? 



11. Macrodon brasiliensis^K. & St.,=l/. microlepis (Gthr.). 



12. Saccodon wagneri, STp. n. — , l^c 



13. Pseudochalceus lineatus, sp. n. 



14. Chalcino])sis striatulus, sp. n. 



15. chagrensis, sp. n. 



16. Chalceus atrocaudatus, sp. n. 



17. Tetragonopterus ceneiis (Gthr.). 



18. gronovii (C. & V. "?). 



19. Bagrus {l)arioides, sp. n.=Anus multiradiatns (Gthr.). 



20. Pimeludus modestus (Gthr.) 



21. dnerascens (K. & St.)=P. wagneri (Gthr.). 



22. Loricaria uracantha, sp. n. 



23. lima (Kner). 



24. Hypostomus plecostomus (K. & St.) =Plecostomus, sp. 



25. Ancistrus drrhosus (C. & V.). 



26. Acanthias vulgaris (Rissol). 



Finally, having received in 1864 the last collections made by Messrs. Godman & Salvin, 

 1 gave preliminary notices of the new species in the ' Proceedings ' of this Society, em- 

 bodying the numerous contributions to our knowledge of the Siluroids and Characinoids 

 in the fifth volume of the ' Catalogue of Fishes,' to which were added the Cyprinodonte.s 

 and Scombresocides in the sixth (1865-66). 



§ 5. General List of Central-American Fishes. 

 After these introductory remarks on the contributions to the ichthyology of Central 



