CHARACINIDAE FROM VENEZUELA—SCHULTZ 355 
rays of caudal fin; this blackish anal band almost completely 
absent on large specimens; humeral spot represented by an 
oblique streak, with pale area behind it; origin of dorsal an eye 
diameter closer to snout tip than to midcaudal base or equi- 
distant between them; outer row of premaxillary sometimes 
with 5 teeth; anal rays ili, 24 to iii, 30; scales 8 or 9-39 to 41-6 or 
7; gillrakers usually 11+-15 to17__Astyanax metae Higenmann 
6b. Black elongate caudal spot continued on middle 3 or 4 caudal fin 
rays, not as in 6a; no blackish anal band extending into caudal 
spot, anal region instead distinctly pale; a vertically elongate 
humeral streak present, sometimes intensified a little above 
lateral line, bordered by pale areas in front and behind. 
7a. Scales 7-36 to 38-5 or 6; anal rays iii, 23 to iii, 26; origin of 
dorsal only a trifle closer to tip of snout than to midcaudal 
base; depth 2.5 to 2.6 in standard length. 
Astyanax fasciatus viejita (Valenciennes) 
7b. Scales 8 or 9-40 or 41-6 or 7; anal rays iii, 24 or ili, 25; origin of 
dorsal about 1 to 1% eye diameters closer to snout tip than 
to midcaudal fin base; depth 2.6 to 2.8 in standard length. 
Astyanax venezuelae, new species 
ASTYANAX SCINTILLANS Myers 
Astyanaz scintillans Myers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 10, vol. 2, p. 88, 1928 
(Playa Matepalma, Rio Orinoco, Venezuela). 
ASTYANAX ABRAMOIDES Eigenmann 
Astyanaz abramoides E1GENMANN, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 21, 1909 
(Guianas). 
Astyanax (Poecilurichthys) abramoides E1cENMANN, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 
vol. 43, pt. 3, p. 245, pl. 54, fig. 2, 1921 (Venezuela and Guiana). 
Tetragonopterus abramis STEINDACHNER, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 41, 
p. 156, 1879 (Ciudad Bolfvar).—E1GENMANN and E1GENMANN, Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., vol. 14, p. 52, 1891 (Orinico).—Pr.uLEeGRIn, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 
Paris, vol. 5, p. 157, 1899 (Apure River, Venezuela). 
Astyanax abramis EIGENMANN and ALLEN, Fishes of western South America, p. 222, 
1942 (Orinoco Basin). 
U.S.N.M. No. 121452, 11 specimens, 52 to 97 mm. in standard 
length, collected by Leonard P. Schultz, G. Zuloaga, Roger Sherman, 
and William Phelps, Jr., May 12, 1942, in the Rio Guérico and tribu- 
taries between San Sebastian and San Casimiro, Estado de Aragua, 
Venezuela. 
ASTYANAX BIMACULATUS (Linnaeus) 
Salmo bimaculatus Linnarus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 311, 1758 (South 
America). (Ref. copied.) 
Astyanax bimaculatus E1GENMANN, Indiana Univ. Stud., vol. 7, No. 44, p. 11, 
1920 (Maracay, Rio Bué; mouth Rio Tapa; Rio Castafio; Isla del Buro, Lake 
Valencia; Rio Tiquirito, Concejo; all Venezuela).—Prarsn, Univ. Wisconsin 
Stud., No. 1, p. 19, 1920 (Lake Valencia and mouth Rio Bué, Venezuela).— 
FowueEr, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 83, p. 408, 1931 (Guanoco; 
Rio Yarapa at Yarapa; La Soledad; Pitch Lake at Guanoco, all Venezuela). 
Tetragonopterus maculatus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1877, p. 472 
(Calabozo, Venezuela)—Pr.uecrin, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 5, p. 
157, 1899 (Apure River).—Rercan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1906, vol. 1, 
p. 384, (Venezuela). 
