132 THE CYPRINODONTS. 



teenth scale of the lateral line, nearly above the middle of the anal. Dor- 

 sal of male reaching the caudal ; the anal not. Caudal little longer than 

 the head. 



Brownish red ; with or without a more or less distinct lateral band of 

 darker, with seven to nine transverse blackish brown bars on the sides, in 

 cases not reaching above the lateral line, anterior one or two indistinct, pos- 

 terior across the root of the caudal. On many specimens each scale of the 

 upper portion of the body bears a carmine red spot, and dorsal, anal, and 

 caudal are freckled or spotted with the same color. 



West Africa. (From literature.) 



Haplochilus homalonotus. 



Poecilia omalorwta Dum., 1861,Arcli. Mus., X, 257, pi. 22, fig. 7; Guicli., 1866, Mem. Soc. Cherb., 

 XII, cxt. p. 19. 



Bpiplatys omalomta Gill, 1863, P. Pliil. Ac. (1SG2), 136. 



Uaplochilus homalonottts Gth., 1866, Cat, VI, 314 j Blk., 1875, Poiss. Madag., 101; Sauv., 1891, Poiss. 

 Madag., 485, pi. 47, fig. 2. 



D. 11 ; A. 14 ; V. 6 ; P. 14. 



Depth of body one fourth and length of head three tenths of the dis- 

 tance from snout to base of caudal. Head and anterior portion of back 

 depressed. Snout little longer than the eye, of medium breadth, blunt. 

 Eye shorter than snout, about two thirds of forehead, two sevenths of head. 

 Dorsal origin half way from gill-opening to end of caudal, opposed to the 

 seventh or eighth ray of the anal. Ventrals small, not reaching the anal. 

 Pectorals reaching behind a vertical from the bases of the ventrals. Caudal 

 convex. 



Uniform brownish red. 



Nossi-Be, Madagascar. (Dumeril.) 



Sauvage says the teeth on each jaw form a single series behind which 

 there are smaller ones irregularly placed. His figure shows the lower jaw to 

 be longer, and the upper to be produced as in Asiatic Haplochili. He finds 

 twenty-eight scales in the lateral line. \ 



Haplooliilus nuchimaculatus. 



Pmcilia nuchimaculata Guich., 1SC6, Mem. Soc. Cherb., XII, 143, ext., p. 15. 



Haplochilus tiuchimaculatus Blk., 1875, Poiss. Madag., 101; Sauv., 1891, Poiss. Madag., 486, pi. 41", 

 fig.l. 



D. 10 ; A. 13 ; LI. 30. 



