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TRIPLE-BANDED CYCHLA. 



Cychla trifasciata. 



PLATE IX. 

 L. GERAL, Lucanari Grande. Schomb. Drawings^ No. 59. 



OUR Notes relative to this species are very scanty ; 

 " it was met with in the Rio Negro and in the 

 Padauiri in the month of February; it continues 

 alive only a short time when removed from the water; 

 its food, other fishes ; teeth are thickly set in both 

 jaws ; tongue pointed and fleshy ; the intestines 

 straight." The drawing is of the same size with 

 the others, the outline somewhat similar ; but there 

 is a sudden rise immediately posterior to the head, 

 after which it falls again and rises before the insertion 

 of the second portion of the dorsal fin ; after which 

 it is suddenly narrowed, as in the others, to the in- 

 sertion of the tail. The colour of the drawing above 

 is a dark olive -green, shading into yellow, slightly 

 tinged with green on the lower half of the fish, or 

 below the lateral line, which bends somewhat, fol- 

 lowing the dorsal outline. The opercula and head 

 are marked with irregular shaped spots of black, 

 and the middle of the fish is crossed with three dark, 

 nearly equidistant, oval marks, the first arising 



