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dots; anterior half of caudal with a large black blotch made up of 

 many small irregular black spots ; other fins plain. 



Turrubares, Costa Rica, (i ? ) 88 mm. ; Turrubales, Costa Rica 

 (i<5*) 86 mm.; San Jose, Costa Rica (i?) 55 mm.; Patarra, Costa 

 Rica, (6c?) 68 to 80 mm. Collected by Dr. A.Alfaro. 



Cichlasoma punctatum sp. nov. 



Type No. 6478, F. M. N. H.; length, 98 mm.; Buenos Aires de 

 Terraba, Costa Rica. 



Head 3.2 to 3.3; depth 2.4 to 2.6; D. XVI to XVII, 9 or 10; A. IV 

 or V, 8; scales ^^. 



Body moderately elongate and compressed; profile steep, convex, 

 snout blunt; mouth small, its gape nearly horizontal; margin of 

 upper lip below eye, a distance nearly equal to diameter of eye; 

 teeth pointed, subequal, the lateral ones gradually becoming smaller; 

 maxillary not reaching vertical from anterior margin of orbit, 3.3 

 to 3.4 in head; mandible 2.5 to 2.7; preorbital deep, 3.5 to 3.6 in 

 the head; postorbital 2.2 to 2.3; cheek deep and narrow, its depth 

 equal to postorbital; eye small, its diameter 3.9 to 4.1 in head; 

 interorbital convex; dorsal fin rather low, its last spine 2.6 in head; 

 last anal spine 2.5 in head ; pectoral fins short not reaching anal, about 

 1.2 in head; ventral reaching vent 1.3 in head; 5^ scales between 

 lateral line and origin of dorsal fin, least depth of caudal peduncle 2 in 

 head. 



Color olivaceous, side with indistinct lateral band more or less 

 broken into 7 or 8 dark bars; snout black which may continue on 

 profile and on spinous dorsal fin; some scales with black centers, 

 these forming stripes along rows of scales; these stripes much more 

 prominent on some individuals than on others; no caudal spot; no 

 lateral spot. 



Buenos Aires, Costa Rica (12), 85 to 100 mm. Collected by M. A. 

 Carriker. 



Cichlasoma frontale sp. nov. 



Type No. 6358, F. M. N. H.; length, 147 mm.; Turrubales, Costa 

 Rica. 



Head 3.1 to 3.3; depth 2.3 to 2.4; D. XVI or XVII, 13; A. V, 9; 



scales 5K-35-">^- 



Body moderately elongate, compressed; profile rather steep, the 

 snout blunt; mouth small, maxillary not reaching vertical from front 

 of eye, its length 3.5 to 3.8 in head; lower jaw the shorter, mandible 



