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TABLE VI. E. HOPLIAS MALABARICUS 



Lebistes reticulatus, Sardina 



These little top minnows do not carry many parasites per 

 individual and are infected by only three species (Table VI F). 



TABLE VI. F. LEBISTES RETICULATUS 



Pimelodella metae, Bagre 



Ten of these little catfishes, caught at the mouth of the Rio 

 Bue, July 29, were not heavily parasitized. Two individuals 

 had three adult Parspina bagre in their intestines; two others 

 carried three intestinal nematodes. 



Rhamdia quelen, Bagre 



Three of these catfishes, caught in the Rio Castano, July 27, 

 carried three species of parasites among the viscera. One had 

 twelve Clinostomum intermediates cysts; two each had two 

 "Cyst No. 8"; one had a nematode cyst. 



