LQRICARIA. LORICARIA. 



Generic Character. 



tiabitus Siluri. II Habit of a Silurus. 



Corpus cataphractum. || Body mailed. 



RIBBED LORICARIA. 



Loricaria Costata. ' L.fusco-ftrcescenS) online utrinque senior um 



simplici, caudafurcata . 

 Yellowish-brown Loricaria, mailed by a single row of shield? 



on each side, with forked tail. 

 Silurus costatus. S. pinna dorsali postica adiposa, squanm seric 



simplici, cirris sex, cauda bifida. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 50(5. 

 Cataphractus cOstatus. C. or dine sctrtorum simplici, pinna 



Iwiata. Block, t. 3/6. 



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N its general habit this fish resembles a species 

 of Silurus, the mouth being furnished with long 

 cirri, and the first rays of the /dorsal and pectoral 

 fin serrated : the head is large, depressed, covered 

 by a rough bony shield, projecting on each side the 

 thorax into an excessively strong and obtusely 

 pointed spine or process of considerable length : 

 the first ray of the dorsal and pectoral fins is very 

 thick, strong, sharp, and serrated on both edges : 

 the whole body, from the thorax, is strongly mailed 

 along each side by a continued series of very broad 

 bony plates or scales, each of which projects in th'* 



