PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM issued M$(v d 0.?^ h the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM Vol. 99 Washington: 1949 No. 3235 A FURTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE ICHTHYOLOGY OF VENEZUELA By Leonard P. Schultz This paper is the third report on the collections made by me in Venezuela during 1942 and those made by the U. S. S. Niagara in the Gulf of Venezuela during 1924 and 1925. Other miscellaneous small collections were included when they were found in the National Museum, as were others kindly lent for study and report. To the following I express my sincere gratitude for their kindness and coop-eration: Dr. Reeve M. Bailey, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, lent some of the Bond Venezuelan collections made in 1938-40. Dr. Karl P. Schmidt and Marion Grey, Chicago Natural History Museum, lent the W. H. Osgood specimens taken in the Maracaibo Basin. Dr. William Beebe, New York Zoological Society, lent his collections from the vicinity of Caripito. Isaac Ginsburg, U. S. Fish and WildUfe Service, identified all the specimens of Gobiidae and Eleotridae in the above-mentioned collections. Dr. Samuel F. Hildebrand, of the same Service, while working up his collections of marine fishes from Panama, identified several species of Venezuelan marine fishes and aided in many other ways. Luis Rene Rivas very kindly checked the spelling of the Spanish names of fishes and of the localities. My interest in Venezuelan ichthyology began in the winter of 1941-42 when, at the invitation of Dr. GuiUermo Zuloaga, assistant chief of explorations, Creole Petroleum Corp., Caracas, I undertook to study 802207 — i9 1 1 SEP 3 1952
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