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Bailes 
Dec. 28,1916. Fisnes or PANAMA— MEEK AND HILDEBRAND. 269 
ll. Anal fin long, with more than 40 rays; body strongly compressed 
anterior profile in adult deeply concave. (Characine) 
Reboides, p. 291. 
dddd. Premaxillary teeth anteriorly in 3 or 4 series, laterally in 2 or 3 
series; mandible with 2 series, the inner series composed of only 
2 conical teeth, placed a little behind the anterior teeth of outer 
series. (Bryconine) Brycon, p. 293. 
ddddd. Premaxillary teeth in a single series; mandibular teeth in 2 
series; lateral line wanting. (Piabucinie) Piabucina, p. 299. 
bb. Scales strongly pectinate; form slender; jaws much produced, 
beak-like; palatines with a few teeth. (Hydrocynine) 
Luciocharax, p. 302. 
aa. Caudal fin rounded; adipose fin wanting; palatines with teeth. 
(Erythrinine) Hoplias, p. 303. 
16. Genus Curimatus Oken. 
Curimatus Oken, Isis, 1817, 1183 (type Salmo edentulus Bloch). 
Body elongate, robust, moderately compressed, abdomen behind 
ventrals trenchant or not; mouth small, without lips; tongue short, 
thick, adnate; teeth wanting; lateral line complete; adipose fin present; 
ventrals inserted below dorsal. 
22. Curimatus magdalene Steindachner. Savaleta. 
Curimatus magdalene Steindachner, Denkschr. K. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 
XXIX, 1878, 50 (Rio Magdalena); Steindachner, I. c., XLI, 1879, 
_ 167 (Rio Mamoni, Panama); Steindachner, l.c., XLI, 1880, 67 
(Rio Cauca); Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., IV, 
1889, 16 (name only); Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., XIV, 1891, 47; Eigenmann, Science, N.S., XXII, July 7, 1905, 
19; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLVII, 1906, 
332; Boulenger, Boll. Mus. Univ. Torino, No. 346, 1899, 2 (Laguna 
della Pita, Darien); Regan, Biol. Cent. Amer., Pisces, 1908, 174; 
Eigenmann, Repts. Princeton Univ. Exp. Patagonia, III, Pt. IV, 
IQIO, 421. 
Head 3 to 3.9; depth 2.6 to 3.2; D. 10 or 11; A. 9 or 10; scales in 
lateral line 37 to 40; 5% or 6 rows between lateral line and base of 
anterior dorsal rays. 
Body elongate, moderately compressed; dorsal region somewhat 
elevated; preventral area convex; postventral area usually very slightly 
keeled; caudal peduncle compressed, its depth 1.85 to 2.2 in head; head 
rather low, its upper surface with a low median ridge, ending at a short 
