. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 45. PLATYSTOMA. 107 barbels are much longer than the bead, and the others also exceed the head in length. Brownish above, spotted with darker, the lower parts whitish ; fins with black dots. South America. 4. Platystoma fasciatum. Silunis fasciatus, part., L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 505. Silurus fasciatus, Bl. taf. 366; Bl. Schn. p. 382. Platystoma fasciatum, Cuv. Sf Val. xv. p. 14; Kncr, Sitzungsber. Wien. Acad, xxvi. p. 401. punctifer, Casteln. Anim. Amer. Sud, p. 40. pi. 19. fig. 2. B. 15. D. 1/6. A. 14. P.
. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 45. PLATYSTOMA. 107 barbels are much longer than the bead, and the others also exceed the head in length. Brownish above, spotted with darker, the lower parts whitish ; fins with black dots. South America. 4. Platystoma fasciatum. Silunis fasciatus, part., L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 505. Silurus fasciatus, Bl. taf. 366; Bl. Schn. p. 382. Platystoma fasciatum, Cuv. Sf Val. xv. p. 14; Kncr, Sitzungsber. Wien. Acad, xxvi. p. 401. punctifer, Casteln. Anim. Amer. Sud, p. 40. pi. 19. fig. 2. B. 15. D. 1/6. A. 14. P. 1/9. The upper jaw projects but little beyond the lower. The maxillary barbels extend to, or nearly to, the ventrals, and the outer ones of the mandible as far, or still further, backwards. Brownish above, with blackish cross-bands edged with silvery; sometimes a longitu- dinal series of blackish ocelli below the lateral line. Vertical and ventral fins with black dots. Teeth on the palate in four more or less confluent patches: those on the vomer irregularly quadrangular ; those on the palatines band-like, long, tapering behind. South America. a. Fine specimen. Essequibo. Purchased of Mr. Ehrhardt. h. Half-grown. Surinam* c. Two feet long. River Capin, Para. Purchased of Mr. Stevens. d-e. Young. Biver Capin, Para. Purchased of Mr. Stevens. 5. Platystoma tigrinnm. Cuv. $ Val. xv. p. 10. pi. 422. B. 16. D. 1/6. A. 11. P. 1/9. The upper jaw projects but little beyond the lower. The tp^th on the palate form one-half of an ellipse, the front part of which is very broad, and produced into an obtuse lobe at its extremity; its branches are prolonged behind. The maxillary barbels extend to the gill- opening. Dorsal spine not serrated. Body with irregular, undulated, transverse blackish-brown bands; vertical and ventral fins with black dots. {Vol.) Brazil. 6. Platystoma orbignianum. Valenc. in d' Orbig. Voy. Amer. Merid. Poiss. pi. 4. fig. 3; Cuv. 8f Val. xv. p. 12. B. 17. D. 1/6. A. 14.
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