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THE AMERICAN CHARACIDAE. 



Specimens examined. 



Depth 2.75-3; A. 26-31; scales 7 or 8-37 or 38-5 to the ventrals ; eye 2.75. 



In one the interorbital is distinctly less than the diameter of the eye, in the 

 other just equal to it ; the maxillary about equal to the eye ; the pectorals extend 

 a httle beyond the origin of the ventrals. 



A caudal band and a humeral spot. 



53. AsTYANAX FASCiATTJS AENEUS (Gunther). 



Tetragonopterus aeneiis Gunther, Proc. Zool. soc. Lond., 1860, p. 319 (Oaxaca, Mexico); Kner & 



Steindachner, Abhandl. Bayer, akad. wiss., 1864, 10, p. 46 (Rio Chagres) '; Gunther, Cat. fishes 



Brit, mus., 1864, 6, p. 326 (Oaxaca); Eigenm.«jn & Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1891, 14, p. 53; 



Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1891, 14, p. 53; Eigenmann, Loc. cit. 1893, 16, p. 55; Ulrey, Ann. 



N. Y. acad. sci., 1895, 8, p. 280; Jordan & Everm.ann, Bull. 47, U. S. N. M., 1896, 1, p. 333; 



Vaillant, Bull. Mus. hist, nat., 1897, 3, p. 221 (Rio Chagres)'; Meek, Field Columbian mus. 



Publication, 1904, 5, p. 86 (Lowland streams south of the city of Vera Cruz and of the Rio Balsas). 

 Asltjanax. rutibts aeneus Eigenm.vnn & Ogle, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1907, 33, p. 24 (Perez; Sulphur River; 



El Rancho, RioTenedores; RioKilagua; Rio Gualan; RioMotagua; Rio Managua; LosAmates). 

 Astijanax fasciatus aeneics Eigenmann, Kept. Princeton univ. exped. Patagonia, 1910, 3, p. 433. 

 Teiragonopterus pariamensis GtJNTHER, Cat. fishes Brit, mus., 1864, 5, p 324 (Pacific coast of Panama-; 



Yzabal). 

 Teiragonopterus brevimanus Gtinther, Cat. fishes Brit, mus., 1864, 5, p. 325 (Rio San Geronima) ; Eigen- 



M.ANN & EiGENM.vNN, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1893, 16, p. 55. 

 Telraqonopterus humilis Gijnther, Cat. fishes Brit, mus., 1864, 5, p. 327 (Lake Amatitlan, Guatemala); 



Ulrey, Ann. N. Y. acad. sci., 1895, 8, p. 276. 

 Tetragorwpteriis finitimus BocouRT, Ann. sci. nat., 1868, ser. 5, 9, p. 62 (Chinantla, Guatemala); V.ail- 



LANT & Pellbgrin, BuU. Mus. hist. nat., 1903, 9, p. .325_. 

 Asbjanax finitimus Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phil., 1906, p. 344, fig. 32 (Central America). 

 Teiragonopterus belizianus Bocourt, Ann. sci. nat., 1868, ser. 5, 9, p. 62 (Beliza) ; Vaillant & Pellegrin, 



Bull. Mus. hist, nat., 1903, 9, p. 326. 

 Teiragonopterus cobanensis Bocourt, Ann. sci. nat., 1868, ser. 5, 9, p. 62 (Hte. Vera Paz Coban); Vail- 

 lant & Pellegrin, Bull. Mus. hist, nat., 1903, 9, p. 324. 

 Teiragonopterus oaxacanensis Bocourt, Ann. sci. nat., 1868, ser. 5, 9, p. 62. 



Habitat. — Panama to Mexico. 



' The only species of Astyanax found by Meek and Hildebrand in the Chagres is A . ruberrimus. 

 ^ The specimen of T. panamensis from the Pacific coast of Panama is probably T. ruberrimus or 

 T. fasciatus. 



