CHARACINIDAE FROM VENEZUELA—SCHULTZ 309 
U.S.N.M. No. 121562, 3 specimens, 250, 294 and 303 mm., Lago Maracaibo at 
Palmarejo, April 10, 1942, collected by Frank J. Pospisil. 
Field Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 41987, 1 specimen, Lago Maracaibo, W. H. Osgood, 
1911. 
Genus HOPLERYTHRINUS Gill 
Hoplerythrinus Giuu, Proc. U. §. Nat. Mus., vol. 18, p. 208, 1896. (Type, 
Erythrinus unitaeniatus Agassiz.) 
'HOPLERYTHRINUS UNITAENIATUS (Agassiz) 
Erythrinus unitaeniatus AGAssiz, in Spix, Selecta genera et species piscium... 
Brasiliam ..., p. 42, pl. 19, 1829.—Ruaan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1906, 
vol. 1, p. 882 (Venezuela). 
?Erythrinus saluus EIGHNMANN and EIGENMANN, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, 
p. 45, 1891 (Orinoco). 
Erythrinus gronovit Pevers, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1877, p. 472 (Calabozo, 
Venezuela). 
Dr. William Beebe kindly lent the following specimens for my exam- 
ination and report: 
Two specimens, 87 and 210 mm. in standard length, from Caripito, Venezuela, 
1942. 
Two specimens, 34 and 37 mm., same data. 
Genus ERYTHRINUS Scopoli 
‘Erythrinus Scopout, Introductio ad historiam naturalem ..., p. 449, 1777. 
(Type, Salmo erythrinus Bloch and Schneider= Erythrinus erythrinus (Bloch 
and Schneider) = Cyprinus cylindricus Linnaeus.) (Ref. copied.) 
ERYTHRINUS ERYTHRINUS (Bloch and Schneider) 
Cyprinus cylindricus Linnarus, Museum 8. R. M. Adolphi Friderici . . ., p. 77, 
pl. 30, 1754. 
Cyprinus cephalus LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 322, 1758. 
Synodus erythrinus Buocu and SCHNEIDER, Systema ichthyologiae, p. 397, 1801 
(ref. copied). 
The following specimens collected by Dr. William Beebe in Vene- 
zuela were kindly lent to me for examination and report: 
Two specimens, 29 and 80 mm., from Caripito, 1942. 
Two specimens, 130 mm. (both), from Caripito, May 7, 1942. 
Genus ELACHOCHARAX Myers 
Elachocharaz Myurs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 68, No. 3, p. 114, 1927. (Type, 
Elachocharax pulcher Myers.) 
ELACHOCHARAX PULCHER Myers 
EHlachocharax pulcher Mymurs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 68, No. 3, p. 115, 1927 
(Cafio de Quiribana, near Caicara, Venezuela). 
KEY TO THE GENERA AND SPECIES RESEMBLING PARAGONIATES STEINDACHNER 
la. Mouth large, distance from tip of snout to rear of maxillary equal to or longer 
than postorbital length of head, much longer than interorbital width and 
