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surface plain light shading into light purple or pinkish; 

 dorsal fin dusky, usually with a dusky median stripe on 

 the interradial membrane; caudal dark except the outer- 

 most rays; pectoral smutty, ventrals usually white, the 

 posterior half sometimes dusky; anal fin white anteriorly 

 becoming dusky backward; maxillary barbels more or 

 less dusky. 



Greatest width, before pectoral fins, 5f-6 in the length; 

 A. 51-55. 



Twelve specimens .14-. 19 m. Para; Arary. Agassiz & 

 Bourget. 



13, Platystacus sicuephorus. 



Aspredo sicuephorus Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xv, 439, 1840 



(Mana). 

 Aspredo sicyephorus Gitnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. v, 269, 1864 



(copied). 

 Platystacus sicuephorus E. & E. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 2d Ser. ii, 



1889, 50. 

 Habitat: French Guiana. 



14, Platystacus filamentosus, 



Aspredo filamentosus Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. xv, 437, pi. 450, 

 1840 (Cayenne); Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. v, 270, 1864 

 (Demarara). 



Platystacus filamentosus E. & E. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 2d Ser. ii, 

 1889, 50. 



Habitat: Guianas. 



15, Platystacus tibicen. 



Aspredo tibicen (Teinmink) Cuv. & Val. xv, 438, 1840 (Surinam); 



Giinther, Catal. v, 270, 1864 (Brit. Guiana). 

 Platystacus tibicen E. & E. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 2d Ser. ii, 1889, 50 



(Curuca; Bio Muria). 

 Habitat: Guiana; Curuca, Bio Muria. 



This species may readily be distinguished by the nasal 

 spines. 



Head somewhat elongate, subconical. Interorbital 

 width 5 in the distance between base of pectoral and tip 

 of snout. Mouth narrow, the snout little projecting; 

 teeth fine and long, the intermaxillary band continuous. 

 Maxillary barbel about reaching to gill-opening, an ac- 



