LORICARIA. LORICARIA. 



Geneiic Character 



Habitus Siluri. 

 Corpus cataphractum. 



Habit of a Silurus. 

 Body mailed. 



RIBBED LORICARIA. 



Loricarla Costata. L.fusco-Jia'vescensy ordme utrinque scutorum 



siwplici, Cauda fur cata. 

 Yellowish-brown Loricaria^ mailed by a single row of shields 



on each side, with forked tail. 

 S'ilurus costatus. S. pinna dorsali postica adiposa, squamis serie 



simpliciy cirris sex, cauda bifida. Lin. Sj/st. Nat. p. 506. 

 Cataphractus costatus. C. or dine scutorum simplici, pinna caud(£ 



lunata. Block, t. 37^. 



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N its general habit this fish resembles a species 

 of Silurus, the mouth being furnished with long 

 cirri, and the first rays of the dorsal and pectoral 

 fin serrated : the head is large, depressed, covered 

 by a rough bony shield, projecting on each side the 

 thorax into an excessively strong and obtusely 

 pointed spine or process of considerable length : 

 the first ray of the dorsal and pectoral fins is very 

 thick, strong, sharp, and serrated on both edges ; 

 the whole body, from the thorax, is strongly mailed 

 along each side by a continued series of very broad 

 bony plates or scales, each of which projects in the 



