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Microperca punctulata Putnam. 



Indiana (E. D, Cope). 

 Asperulus asper (Linnseus). 



Rhone River, France (Bonaparte Coll.). 



Asperulus Klein, in Walbavim, Pet. Arted. Gen. Pise, 1792, p. 584 

 (type Perca zingel Linnseus only species mentioned), has priority over 

 Zingel Cloquet, Diet. Sci. Nat., IX, 1817, p. 240 (type Perca zingel 

 Linnseus first species). 



Asperulus zingel (Linnaeus). 



Danube River (Bonaparte Coll.), and also evidently those from E.D. 

 Cope. 

 Acerina cernua (Linnseus). 



Sweden (Prof. J. Kinberg); Europe (Bonaparte Coll.). 

 Gymnooephalus schrsetser (Linnaeus). 



Danube?, Europe (Bonaparte Coll.). 



APOGONID-aS. 



Foa brachygramma (Jenkins). 



Hawaiian Islands (Dr. J. K. Townsend; Dr. William H. Jones). 



Apogon imberbis (Linnaeus). 



The example recorded by Cope from Newport, R. I., as Apogonich- 

 thys americanus differs a little from Mediterranean examples in the 

 Bonaparte Coll. in having a shorter pectoral, though this may be 

 associated with youth as it only measures 3f inches. In this respect 

 however it approaches Castelnau's figure, which was based on an 

 example nearly 4 inches long, equal in size to my Mediterranean ones. 

 The Newport specimen shows: Head 2^; depth 2f ; snout 4^ in head; 

 eye 3 ; maxillary 2 ; interorbital space 4^ ; pectoral If ; maxillary reach- 

 ing posterior margin of pupil ; margin of preopercle with minute obso- 

 lete serrse; gill-rakers ii, 2 + 9, iii, and longest about f of eye; dark 

 brownish dustings behind eye and on opercle above; a brownish blotch 

 about as large as pupil on caudal peduncle at base of caudal; edges of 

 rayed dorsal and upper and lower edges of caudal tinted dusky. 



This and the following are members of the subgenus Apogon, dis- 

 tinguished by the presence of VI spines in the first dorsal, and the 

 anterior ridge of the preopercle entire. 

 Apogon retrosella (Gill). 



An example from J. A. McNeil, taken at Panama, from which locality 

 the species has not been obtained before. It has a deep brown saddle 

 on back at base of rayed dorsal, and another larger and obscure one 



