228 REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL 
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C. TATE REGAN, M. A. 
GALAXIAS BULLOCKI, N. Sp. 
Depth of body about 5 in the length, length of head 4 to 
4^. Snout a little shorter than eye, the diameter of which is 3^ in 
the length of head and less than the interorbital width. Mouth 
oblique; jaws equal anteriorly or the lower a little proyecting; 
maxillary extending to below anterior edge or anterior J of 
e3'e; no canine teeth, (j branchiostegals; about 10 gill-rakers 
on the lower part of the anterior arch. Dorsal 9-11. Anal 13-16. 
Origin of anal well in advance of that of the dorsal; posterior 
end of base of anal vertically below that of the dorsal. Pecto- 
ral extending about ^ of the distance from its base to that of 
the ventral. Ventrals 5-rayed, originating at a point a little 
nearer to the end of snout than to the base of caudal. Caudal 
emarginate. Caudal peduncle much longer than deep. Greenish; 
a broad orange longitudinal band along the lower half of the 
side; fíns pale or tinged with orange. 
Hab. Maguehne, Temuco, Southern Chile. 
Numerous examples, measuring up to 60 mm. in total length, 
received from Mr. D. S. Bullock, who obtained them on April 
6, 1907, from a pool of muddy water left by a dried-up creek. 
This species differs from all others of the genus in having 
the origin of the anal fin in advance of that of the dorsal and 
the ventral fins 5-rayed. 
In my «Revisión of the Galaxiidfe» (Proc. ZooL Soc. 1905, 
ii. p. 363) six South-American species of Galaxias were recog- 
nized as valid. The only one since described, G. titcomhi, 
Everm. & Kendall (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxi, 1907, p. 92, 
fig.), from the Rio Traful, Argentina, is, in my opinion, a 
synonym of G. platei, Stdr. 
London, iv/1908. 
