208 SMABIS LINEATUS. 



A fibh from the Laguno do Colluca, which Baron 

 Humboldt was assured was of fresh-water, is re- 

 ferred by Valenciennes to the Spare JBreton of 

 Lacepede, and named Smarts lineatus, " White ; 

 the back greenish ; the body with eight or nine 

 longitudinal bands." It is provincially named Mox- 

 ara, but there appears to be a little doubt whether 

 the lake, not far distant, is entirely without com- 

 munication with the sea. 



These are the principal species mentioned in the ' 

 paper by Humboldt previously alluded to ; but we 

 have yet to notice the remarkable form Eremophiliis^ 

 a fish supposed to belong to the family of the 

 Loaches, but regarding which M. Valenciennes has 

 expressed his views in a paper added to the second 

 volume of the " Reserches." 



