368 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Body little depressed anteriorly, its depth 1| in its 

 width. Depth of the head li in the snout. Head with- 

 out keels or ridges, its surface and that of all the plates 

 hispid; transverse profile of the occiput regularly con- 

 vex. 



Orbit without a notch, 3^ in snout, 7 in head, 2 in 

 interorbital. 



Anterior profile little concave; snout triangular, acute, 

 little longer than the rest of the head. Margin of the 

 head with minute movable bristles. Teeth fine, numer- 

 ous, well developed in both jaws; upper lip granular, 

 lower lip entire, rounded, thickly papillose. 



Breast and lower surface of the head with numerous 

 irregular plates; belly with 5 series of plates. 



Lateral keels coalescing into one keel at about the 20th 

 scute; the upper keel obsolete in front. Distance of dor- 

 sal fin from tip of snout slightly more than 3 in the 

 length. First dorsal ray longer than the head. Rays 

 of the dorsal and caudal faintly spotted, other fins plain. 

 D. 8; A. 6; V. I, 5; P. I, 6; Lat. 1. 34. 



306. Loricaria hma. 



Lorkaria lima Kuer, Panzerwelse, 89, pi. vi, fig. 1, a. b. 1853 

 (Brazil); Giinther, v, 260, 1864, (copied); id. Fish. Ceutr. Am 

 393, 1866 (Atlantic and Pacific slope of Panama); Heusel 

 Wiegm. Arch. 1868, i, 366 (Stony brooks near Santa Cruz) 

 Liitken, Velhas Flodens Fiske, 138, 1875 (Eio das Velhas) 

 Steindachner, Flussfische Stidam. iii, 6, pi. i, 1881 (Eio Para 

 hyba; Eio Macacos; Eio Preto; Eio Quenda; Eio das Velhas) 

 Eigeum. & Eigenm. Proc. Cal. Acad. 2d Ser.ii, 35, 1889 (Mendez 

 Santa Cruz; Eio Quenda; Eio Parahyba; Campos; Macacos). 



? Loricaria strigilata Hensel, Wiegm. Arch. 1868, i, 368 (Stony 

 brooks near Santa Cruz) = & . 



Habitat: Coast rivers from Eio Parahyba to Eio Para; Atlantic and 

 Pacific slopes of Panama. 



Depressed, elongate, the depth about 2 in the width. 

 Head long, tapering; the cheeks of the male thickly cov- 

 ered with fine bristles, of the female slightly hispid; 

 plates of the head with longitudinal series of small seme; 



