2834 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



slender. Eye longer than snout, not quite \ of head, of interorbital 

 space. Forehead flat. Dorsal origin somewhat nearer to end of snout 

 than to eud of caudal, opposite first ray of anal on females. Anal of male 

 advanced, between the ventrals, which are elongate ; anal process as long- 

 as the head, without hooks. Caudal large, rather longer than head, 

 obtusely rounded ; free portion of tail somewhat elongate, base of anal 

 being \ of its distance from the caudal; ventrals reaching anal; pecto- 

 rals as long as the head, not reaching ventrals. Female yellowish olive, 

 scales with a narrow blackish edge, belly silvery, trunk above the belly 

 blackish. Male with 2 brown streaks along the trunk, sometimes conflu- 

 ent into a band, a brown streak along the middle of the side of the tail, 

 a round black spot behind the shoulder, another at the commencement of 

 the caudal streak, and a third at the root of the caudal ; 1 or 2 of these 

 spots may be absent. Trinidad; Venezuela (reticulatus, netted). 



The male from Venezuela differs in color from those from Trinidad. It 

 has large silvery patches between the brown streaks, and a large ovate 

 black spot in the middle of the side of the tail. (Giinther. ) 



NOTE. The following is the original description : "Griingelblich mit eineui schwarzen 

 Netzwerk, dessen Maschen den Randern der Schuppen parallel liegen, am Bauche silbrig. 

 Schuppen in 7 Langs- und in 27 Querreihen ; obwohl einige derselben durchbohrt erschei- 

 nen, 1st doch keine deutliche Seitenlinie zu sehen. Gauze Lange 39, Hohe 9, Lange des 

 Kopfes 7 Millimeter. D. 8; A. 10. Caracas; in dein Guayre-Flusse von Gollner gesam- 

 melt." 



Poeeilia reticulata, PETERS, Monatsb. Berl. Ak. 1859, 412, Caracas; GARMAN, Cyprino- 



donts, 63, 1895. 

 Girardinus guppii, GUNTHER, Cat., VI, 353, 1866, Trinidad; Venezuela; EIGENMANN, 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 65. 

 Girardinus vandepolli, VAN LINDTH DE JEUDE, Notes from Leyden Museum, ix, 137, 1887, 



Curasao, one of the Leeward Islands. 

 Poeeilia vandepolli arubensis, VAN LINDTH DE JEUDE, Notes from Leyden Museum, ix, 



137, 1887, Aruba, one of the Leeward Islands. 

 Poeeilia branneri, EIGENMANN, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci. 1894, 629. 



Page 697. Garman refers Pcecilia elongata, one of the best marked 

 species of large size, and marine in its habitat, to the synonymy of P. 

 (jillii. This is certainly wrong, as is also the reference to P. gillii of P. 

 chisoyensis and P. boucardi. 



P. melanogaster is probably correctly referred to P. dominicensis. 



Page 698. Add: 



1037 (a). PCECILIA CtJNEATA, Garman. 



B. 5; D. 8 to 10; A. 10 or 9; V. 6; P. 15 or 16; scales 28 or 29-9. Short 

 and deep ; caudal pedicel deep. Head depressed, broad, flat on the crown, 

 equaling depth between dorsal and anal, or J of the length to the base of 

 the caudal ; snout as long as the eye, broad, truncate ; chin short, steep ; 

 mouth wide, directed upward; jaws weak, loosely joined, lower short, 

 upper shorter, protractile; outer series of teeth slender, oar-shaped, 

 hooked, movable; inner in bands, small, pointed; eye large, as long as 

 snout, I of interorbital space, f of head. Dorsal larger than anal, origin 

 midway from head to base of caudal, over third ray of anal, 33 scales 

 behind the occiput. Anal small, acute angled, third ray longest; on the 



