368 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Body little depressed anteriorly, its depth 1J in its 

 width. Depth of the head 1| in the snout. Head with- 

 out keels or ridges, its surface and that of all the plates 

 hispid; transverse profile of the occiput regularly con- 

 vex. 



Orbit without a notch, 3J in snout, 7 in head, 2 in 

 interorbital. 



Anterior profile little concave; snout triangular, acute, 

 little longer than the rest of the head. Margin of the 

 head with minute movable bristles. Teeth fine, numer- 

 ous, well developed in both jaws; upper lip granular, 

 lower lip entire, rounded, thickly papillose. 



Breast and lower surface of the head with numerous 

 irregular plates; belly with 5 series of plates. 



Lateral keels coalescing into one keel at about the 20th 

 scute; the upper keel obsolete in front. Distance of dor- 

 sal fin from tip of snout slightly more than 3 in the 

 length. First dorsal ray longer than the head. Rays 

 of the dorsal and caudal faintly spotted, other fins plain. 

 D. 8; A. 6; V. I, 5; P. I, 6; Lat. 1. 34. 



306. Loricaria lima. 



Loricaria lima Kner, Panzerwelse, 89, pi. vi, fig. 1, a. b. 1853 



(Brazil); Giinther, v, 260, 1864, (copied); id. Fish. Centr. Am. 



393, 1866 (Atlantic and Pacific slope of Panama); Hensel, 



Wiegm. Arch. 1868, i, 366 (Stony brooks near Santa Cruz); 



Liitken, Velhas Flodens Fiske, 138, 1875 (Kio das Velhas); 



Steindachner, Flussfische Siidam. iii, 6, pi. i, 1881 (Rio Para- 



hyba; Kio Macacos; Bio Preto; Rio Quenda; Rio das Velhas); 



Eigenm. & Eigenm.Proc. Gal. Acad. 2d Ser.ii, 35, 1889 (Mendez; 



Santa Cruz; Rio Quenda; Rio Parahyba; Campos; Macacos). 

 ? Loricaria strigilata Hensel, Wiegm. Arch. 1868, i, 368 (Stony 



brooks near Santa Cruz) = $ . 

 Habitat: Coast rivers from Rio Parahyba to Rio Para; Atlantic and 



Pacific slopes of Panama. 



Depressed, elongate, the depth about 2 in the width. 

 Head long, tapering; the cheeks of the male thickly cov- 

 ered with fine bristles, of the female slightly hispid; 

 plates of the head with longitudinal series of small serrse; 



