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YELLOW-SPOTTED CYCHLA. 



Cychla Jlavo-maculata. 



PLATE VI. 



9 intado. L. GERAL, Lucanari. Schomb. Drawings, No. 45. 



THIS beautiful fish inhabits the Rio Negro and 

 adauiri, and is preferred to most others for the 

 eJicacy of its flesh. The scaling is rather small, 

 liptical, slightly fringed, and adhesive ; lateral 

 le arched until over the ventral fin, when it bends 

 the middle of the body, and runs thence to the 

 til (see Drawing) ; head compressed ; ventral fins 

 aced under the pectoral ; air-bag long, covering 

 ie spine the whole length of the cavity of the 

 ody ; nostrils single, round, situate near the eye ; 

 round, iris black and yellow, and situate over 

 ie gape of the mouth ; tongue pointed, fleshy ; 

 wer jaw slightly produced ; teeth fine, thickly 

 in each jaw; intestines straight. The gill- 

 )ening is semilunar, the cover having all the 

 ones scaled ; the roe is moderate-sized and double. 

 b lives but a short time after being taken from 

 ie water, takes bait and the artificial fly rudely 

 onstructed by the Indians; it will also bite at a 

 id pepper or a red rag. They are perfect ty- 

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