132 THE CYPRINODONTS. 
teenth scale of the lateral line, nearly above the middle of the anal. Dor- 
sal of male reaching the caudal; the anal not. Caudal little longer than 
the head. 
Brownish red; with or without a more or less distinct lateral band of 
darker, with seven to nine transverse blackish brown bars on the sides, in 
cases not reaching above the lateral line, anterior one or two indistinct, pos- 
terior across the root of the caudal. On many specimens each scale of the 
upper portion of the body bears a carmine red spot, and dorsal, anal, and 
caudal are freckled or spotted with the same color. 
West Africa, (From literature.) 
Haplochilus homalonotus. 
Pecilia omalonota Dum., 1861, Arch. Mus., X, 257, pl. 22, fig. 7; Guich., 1866, Mem. Soc. Cherb., 
XII, ext. p. 19. 
Epiplatys omalonota Gill, 1863, P. Phil. Ac. (1862), 136. 
Haplochilus homalonotus Gth., 1866, Cat., VI, 314; Blk., 1875, Poiss. Madag., 101; Sauv., 1891, Poiss. 
Madag., 485, pl. 47, fig. 2 
DSL BAIA Vee bea 
Depth of body one fourth and length of head three tenths of the dis- 
tance from snout to base of caudal. Head and anterior portion of back 
depressed. Snout little longer than the eye, of medium breadth, blunt. 
Eye shorter than snout, about two thirds of forehead, two sevenths of head. 
Dorsal origin half way from gill-opening to end of caudal, opposed to the 
seventh or eighth ray of the anal. Ventrals small, not reaching the anal. 
Pectorals reaching behind a vertical from the bases of the ventrals. Caudal 
convex. 
Uniform brownish red. 
Nossi-Bé, Madagascar. (Duméril.) 
Sauvage says the teeth on each jaw form a single series behind which 
there are smaller ones irregularly placed. His figure shows the lower jaw to 
be longer, and the upper to be produced as in Asiatic Haplochili. He finds 
twenty-eight scales in the lateral line. 
Haplochilus nuchimaculatus. 
Pecilia nuchimaculata Guich., 1866, Mem. Soc. Cherb., XII, 143, ext., p. 15. 
Haplochilus nuchimaculatus Blk., 1875, Poiss. Madag., 101; Sauv., 1891, Poiss. Madag., 486, pl. 41>, 
fig. 1. 
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