CHARACINIDAE FROM VENEZUELA—SCHULTZ 269. 
SCHIZODON FASCIATUM CORTI, new subspecies 
CortTI 
Figures 30, 31, a 
Piabuca schizodon VALENCIENNES, in Cuvier and Valenciennes (in part), Histoire 
naturelle des poissons, vol. 22, p. 112, 1849 (Lago Maracaibo). 
V Holotype.—U. S. N. M. No. 121300, a specimen 258 mm. in stand- 
ard length, collected by Leonard P. Schultz, February 21, 1942, in 
the Rio Palmar near Totuma, about 100 km. southwest of Maracaibo. 
Paratypes.—All the paratypes were collected by Leonard P. 
Schultz during 1942 in the Maracaibo Basin of Venezuela. 
Figure 30.—Schizodon fasciatum corti, new subspecies: Holotype, U.S.N.M. No. 121300, 
258 mm. in standard length. 
c 
Ficure 31.—Enlargement of one of middle teeth of lower jaw: a, Schizodon fasciatum 
cort1, new subspecies; b, Laemolyta varius nitens (Garman); c, Anostomus anostomus 
(Linnaeus). 
U.S.N.M. No. 121306, 10 specimens, 166 to 335 mm. in standard length, 
taken along with the holotype and bearing same data. 
v U.S.N.M. No. 121307, 15 examples, 131 to 385 mm., February 24, Rio Socuy, 
3 km. above its mouth. 
~ U.S.N.M. No. 121302, 4 examples, 153 to 230 mm., taken March 6 in the 
Rio Palmar at bridge, 70 km. southwest of Maracaibo. _ 
- U.S.N.M. No. 121304, 2 specimens, 280 and 290 mm., taken March 2 in the 
Rio Negro below mouth of Rio Yasa. 
Y U.S.N.M. No. 121301, 4 specimens, 146 to 179 mm., obtained March 11 
from a cafio 3% km. west of Sinamaica. 
U.S.N.M. No. 121305, 5 specimens, 232 to 263 mm., collected February 26 
from the Rio Apén about 35 km. south of Rosario. 
»~ U.S.N.M. No. 1218038, a specimen, 285 mm., obtained March 17 in the Rio 
Motatdn at the bridge, 22 km. north of Motatén. 
