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of dorsal sometimes smutty; young with about six dark 

 cross-shades on the back; a jet black spot on base of cau- 

 dal, its tip dusky. 



Head 44-4i; D. 8-9; A. 6; V. I, 5; P .1, 6; Lat. 1. 32. 



Forty specimens .06-. 30 m. Rio Madeira; Rio Trom- 

 betas; Coary; Jutahy; Porto do Moz; Manaos; Fonteboa; 

 Lake Jose Assu; Gurupa; Silva, .Lake Saraca; Xingu; 

 Tonantins ; Hyavary . 



323. Loricaria variegata. 



Loricaria variegata Steiudacliuer, Flussfische Siidam. i, 15, pi. iii, 

 1879 (Mamoui Eiver, near Chepo); Eigeum. & Eigeum. Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. 2d Ser. ii, 36, 1889. 



Habitat: Mamoni Kiver. 



324. Loricaria macrodon. 



Loricaria macroilon Kuer, Pauzerwelse, 79, \>\. ii. 185.3 (Cujaba); 

 Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. v, 255, 1864 (copied); Hyrtle, 

 Denk. Ak. Wien, xvi, 18, 1859 (Vertebrae 1 + 27); E. &E. I.e. 



Habitat: Cujaba. 



325. Loricaria nudiventris, 



Loricaria nudircntriii Cuv. & Val. Hist Nat. Poiss. xv, 469, 1840 (Rio 

 Sau Francisco); Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. v, 256, 1864 

 (coi^ied); Eigenm. &Eigenm. 1. c. 



Habitat: Rio San Francisco. 



326. Loricaria cataphracta. 



Loricaria dura Linuffius, "Mus. Ad. Fred. 79, pi. 29, figs, laud 2;" 

 Bleeker, Silures de Suriname, 18, 1864 (Surinam). 



Loricaria cataphracta Linnasus, Systema Natur<B, ed. x, 307, 1758; 

 id. 1. c. ed. xii, 508, 1766 (America); Bloch, Ausl. Fische, viii, 

 76, pi. 75, figs. 3 and 4; Cut. &Val.xv, 459 (Surinam, Cayenne); 

 Kner, Panzerwelse, 77, 1853 (Cujaba, Guapore); Giinther, v, 

 255, 1864 (Surinam); Peters, MB. Ak.Berl.471, 1877 (Calabozo); 

 Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xvii, 681, 1878 (Maranon, Peru); 

 Eigeum. & Eigenm. I.e. (Vigia; Sao Gon(;allo; Cameta; Man- 

 aos; Para; Eio Negro; Coarj'; Villa Bella; Gurupa; Rio Preto; 

 Tajapuru; Porto do Moz; Teffe; Marailon; Ucayale; Obidos). 



Loricaria cirrhosa Bloch & Schneider, "Syst. Nat. 125, pi. 34," 

 1801. 



Loricaria setifera Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, 140, 1803 (South 

 America). 



Loricaria carinata Castelnau, Anim. Amc-rique du Sud, 46, pi. xxiii, 

 fig. 3, 1855 (Amazon). 



Plccostomu)^ flagellaris Gronow, "Cat. Fish. 158, 1854." 



Habitat: Rio Preto; Amazons; Guiana. 



