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of dorsal sometimes smutty; young with about six dark 

 cross-shades on the back; a jet black spot on base of cau- 

 dal, its tip dusky. 



Head 4J-4J; D. 8-9; A. 6; V. I, 5; P .1, 6; Lat. 1. 32. 



Forty specimens .06-.30 m. Rio Madeira; Kio Trom- 

 betas; Coary; Jutahy; Porto do Moz; Manaos; Fonteboa; 

 Lake Jose Assu; Gurupa; Silva, Lake Saraca; Xingu; 

 Tonantins; Hyavary. 



323. Loricaria variegata, 



Loricaria variegata Steindachuer, Flussfische Sudani, i, 15, pi. iii, 

 1879 (Mamoni Kiver, near Chepo); Eigenm. & Eigeuni. Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. 2d Ser. ii, 36, 1889. 



Habitat: Mamoni Kiver. 



324. Loricaria macrodon, 



Loricaria macrodon Kner, Paiizerwelse, 79, pi. ii. 1853 (Cujaba); 

 Giiuther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. v, 255, 1864 (copied); Hyrtle, 

 Denk. Ak. Wien, xvi, 18, 1859 (Vertebras 1+27); E. & E. I.e. 



Habitat: Cujaba. 



325. Loricaria nudiventris. 



Loricaria nudiventris Cuv. & Val. Hist Nat. Poiss. xv, 469, 1840 (Kio 

 San Francisco); Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. v, 256, 1864 

 (copied); Eigenm. &Eigeiirn. 1. c. 



Habitat: Kio San Francisco. 



326. Loricaria cataphracta. 



Loricaria dura Linnaeus, "Mus. Ad. Fred. 79, pi. 29, figs, land 2;" 

 Bleeker, Silures de Suriname, 18, 1864 (Surinam). 



Loricaria cataphracta Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. x, 307, 1758; 

 id. 1. c. ed. xii, 508, 1766 (America); Bloch, Ausl. Fische, viii, 

 76, pi. 75, figs. 3 and 4; Cuv. &Val.xv, 459 (Surinam, Cayenne); 

 Kner, Paiizerwelse, 77, 1853 (Cujaba, Guapore); Giinther, v, 

 255, 1864 (Surinam); Peters, MB. Ak. Berl.471, 1877 (Calabozo); 

 Cope, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. xvii, 681, 1878 (Maranon, Peru); 

 Eigenm. & Eigenm. 1. c. (Vigia; Sao Goncallo; Cameta; Man- 

 aos; Para; Rio Negro; Coary; Villa Bella; Gurupa; Kio Preto; 

 Tajapuru; Porto do Moz; Teffr'; Maranon; Ucayale; Obidos). 



Loricaria cirrhosa Bloch & Schneider, "Syst. Nat. 125, pi. 34," 

 1801. 



Loricaria tetifrra Lact'pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. y, 140, 1803 (South 

 America). 



Loricaria rririiififa Castelnau, Anim. Amerique du Sud, 46, pi. xxiii, 

 fig. 3, 1855 (A ma/on). 



Plecostomtts jtagellaris Gronow, "Cat. Fish. 158, 1854." 



Habitat: Rio Preto; Amazons; Guiana. 



