III. Systematik, Faunistik, Biologic. 1. Pisces. III. Systematic. 



a list of nominal species with their identifications. A tabular list is also appended 

 of the 35 species admitted, indicating the nature of questions of doubt remaining 

 to be solved in each case. Mycteroperca falcata Poey, var. n., phenax p 363 

 and M. bonaciPoey, var. n., xanthosticta p 371, Florida; id. 



Bean ( G ) p 242 describes and gives a comparative table of measurements of a 

 specimen of Roccus striatus Mitch, from the Lower Mississippi Valley. 



Bean & Dresel p 164 describe a specimen referred to Trisotropus bonaciPoey 

 (= T. aguaji Poey) and give a comparative table of measurements. 



Gill ( 2 ) has written a paper on the osteological characters of the Lutjaninae 

 and Hoplopagrinae found in American Waters in which he recharacterizes the 

 7 genera adopted by Poey in 1871 and gives a diagnosis of the skeletal features 

 by which they may be recognized. Jordan & Swain ( 6 ) accept the views of Gill 

 as to the relationship of these forms and place them in the family Sparidae. 

 They consider the cranial character of the separation of the interorbital area from 

 the occipital region more important than the squamation of the soft dorsal or the 

 separation of the spinous dorsal, characters by which Bleeker has arranged the 

 groups noticed in this paper into 3 genera \Lutjanus, Aprion and Etelis] , and di- 

 vide the (27) American species into S genera (Hoplopagrus, Lutjamis, Ocyurus, 

 Rhomboplites, Propidinius, Aprion, Etelis and Verilus], of which a synonymy is 

 given , and a synopsis by which the genera and species may be distinguished. 

 Full descriptions are given only of those species which have been examined. A 

 list of the nominal species, with their identifications, is added, and a table of the 

 27 species admitted, showing their distribution and the nature of the questions of 

 doubt still remaining to be solved in each case. 



Jordan & Swain ( 4 ) review the species of Haemulon and divide the 20 species 

 recognized as probably valid into 5 groups or subgenera : H. (13 species) , Bra- 

 chygenys (2), Batkystoma (3), Lythrulon [\] and Orthostoechus (I). An elaborate 

 synopsis and synonymy are given , and such species as have been collected by 

 Jordan & Gilbert are redescribed. A list is given of nominal species of H., 

 arranged in chronological order, with identifications. - H. (Bathystoma] rimator 

 uom. n. = chrysopterum C. & V. etc. p 308 ; (see also Bean & Dresel p 158) - 

 yibboswn Bl., must be used instead of album C. & V. (= chromis C. & V. = micro- 



phthalmum Gthr.) p 190; Jordan ( 4 ); (see also Jordan & Swain ( 4 ) p290); Bean & 

 Dresel p 290 give a note on and table of measurements of fremebundum G. & B. 



Perca fluviatilis L. is redescribed by Sundman pt. 3 p 5 pi. 9. 



Elassoma evergladei n. Florida; Jordan ( 7 ) p 323. 



Lucioperca lucioperca L. pt. 1 p 9 pi. 3 and rutilis L. pt. 4 p 3 pi. 1 1 are redescribed 

 by Sundman. 



Serraria n. differing from Hadropterus in the wide union of the branchiostegal mem- 

 branes across the isthmus and the well-developed serration of the preopercle ; for 

 H. scierus Swains. ; Gilbert (*) p 205. 



Poecilichthys borealis n. p 477 Canada; quiescens n. p 478 Georgia; Swaini n. 

 p 479 Mississippi, and beani n. p 479 Missouri; Jordan ( 8 ) - - palustris n. Switz 

 City Swamp, Indiana; Gilbert ( 2 ) p 209. 



Anthias squamipinnis Pet. described by Klunzinger (') pi. 3 fig. 1 gibbosus n. 

 and taeniatus n. fig. 2 Red Sea; id. p 9. 



Hyposerranus subg. n., for Serranus morrhuaG. & V., areolatus Forsk. and geof- 



froyi nom. n. = S. tauvina Geoff. = areolatus C. & V., Gthr. etc. (nee Forsk.) 



p 3, S. morrhua C. & V., fig. 2, areolatus Forsk., fig. 1 and tauvina Forsk., 



fig. 3 pi. 1, sumana Forsk., figs. 1 and 2 and marmoratus nom. n. = leucostigma 



Klz. (nee Ehrb.) p 5 fig. 3 pi. 2; Klunzinger ('). 



