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1. Labrax chrysops Girard. There is little doubt that the Labrax 

 albidus of Dr. Dekay* and the Labrax osculatii of Filippi f are identi- 

 cal with the Labrax chrysops. Filippi, although acquainted with the work 

 of Dekay, compares his Labrax osc ula tii only with the L. li n e at us Cuv., 

 and chiefly distinguishes it from that species by its higher body and lingual 

 dentition. The specimens, from which the species of Filippi was described, 

 were sent to the Museum of Milan by the traveller to whom it was dedicated, 

 (M. Osculati,) and are stated by Filippi to have been obtained in Lake Ontario. 

 Notwithstanding this, Filippi has stated that it is an inhabitant of the sea and 

 the rivers of the United States. "Hab. in mare et fluvis confederationis Amer- 

 icanse." 



2. Lepomis ach i gan Gill. RafinesqueJ first indicated the Cicha fas- 

 ciata of Lesueur or Centrarchus obscurus of Dekay, under the name of 

 Bodianus achigan. His specific name must be preserved. 



3. Ambloplites rupestris Gill. The Bodianus rupestris of Rafin- 

 esque, described in December, 181 7, $ appears to be the same as the species 

 subsequently named Cichla senea by Lesueur. 



4. Pomotis maculatus Gill. The common sun fish of New York was 

 first named Morone maculata by Mitchell. || His specific name should be 

 retained. 



(Corinia oxyptera Dekay. H) This is a species of the genus Serranus. 



5. Orthopristis fulvo-maculatus Gill. If the genus Orthopris- 

 t i s is valid, the Haemulon fulvo-maculatum of Dekay** must be referred 

 to it under the above name. That species differs very little, if at all, from the 

 Orthopristis duplex of Dr. Girard. ff The two are probably identical. 



6. Sargus ovicephalus Gill. The common sheep's-head was first named 

 by BlochJJ from the description of Schoepf.$$ 



Palindrichthys Gill. 



This name is proposed as a substitute for P a 1 i n u r u s of Dekay. The latter 

 name having been applied to a well-known genus of crustaceans, it is inadmis- 

 sible in any other branch of the animal kingdom. 



7. Palinurichthys perciformis Gill. Syn. Palinurus perciformis 

 Dekay, Zoology of New York, Fishes, p. 118. 



Percina Haldeman.lHI 

 The type of this genus is congeneric with the type of the subsequently estab- 

 lished genus, P i 1 e o m a of Dekay. The latter name is therefore a synonym of 

 Percina, and must be suppressed. 



8. Percina semifasciata Gill. Syn. Pileoma semifaciata Dekay, 

 Zoology of New York, Fishes, p. 16. 



Astroscopcs Brev. 

 Under this name, Mr. Brevoort proposes to separate from Uranoscopus the 



* Dekay, Zoology of New York, Fishes, p. 13, pi. 51, fig. 165. 



T Filippi, Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2d series, vol. v- p. 164. 



X Rafinesque. American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, vol. ii. p. 120. 



Loc. cit., vol. ii. p. 120. 



|| Mitchell's Report in part on the fishes of New York, p. 19, Jan., 1814. 



\ Dekay, loc. cit., p. 77, pi. xxx. fig. 96. 



** Dekay, loc. cit., p. 



tt Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1859. 



XX Bloch. Schneider., Systema Ichthyologia?, p. 280. 



jgSchoepf in Schriften der Gesellchaft Naturf. Freunde zu Berlin, vol.viii. p. 152, 1788. 



PlHaldeman, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. viii. p. 330, 1842. 



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