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Upeneus maculatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 1829, 

 478 (Martinique; Brazil); Btorer, "Syn. Fish. N. A., 1846, 48;" 

 Poey, Mem. Pise. Cuba, i, 1851, 223 (Martinique ; Brazil); Castelnau. 

 "Aiiim. iiouv, on rares Amer. Sud, 1850-01, (South America); 

 Cunt her, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 1850, 408 (Atlantic coasts of 

 Tropical America ; Jamaica); Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1870, 

 471 (St. Croix); Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1882, 5G5 ; 

 Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 120 (Key West). 



Mnllhy peneus maculatus Poey, Syn., 1868, 307 (Cuba). 



Mullhypcncus maculatus Poey, Enum. Pise. Cuba, 1875, 34 (Havana ; 

 Jamaica). 



////peneus maculatus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1870, 49 (no 

 specimen). 



Upeneus punctatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 1829, 

 482 (Mexico); Kner, Novara Fiscbe, 1857-59,71 (Rio Janeiro); Cope, 

 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1870, 471 (St. Kitts). 



Habitat. — Atlantic coasts of Tropical America, from Key 

 West to Rio Janeiro. 



The specimens of this species examined by us are from Key 

 West and Havana. 



:'.. Upeneus dentatus. 



Upeneus dentatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila., 1862, 256 (Cape San 

 Lucas); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 363 (Cape 

 San Lucas). 



Habitat. — Pacific coast of Tropical America ; Lower California. 

 This species is known to us only from the description of Gill, 

 and the notes of Jordan and Gilbert on Gill's original types. 



4. Upeneus martinicus. 



Upeneus martinicus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 



1829, 483 (Martinique). 

 Upeneus balteatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist., Nat. Poiss., iii. L829, 



484 (Cuba); Poey, Mem. Cuba, i, 1851, 224 (Cuba); Jordan, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 129 (Key West). 

 Mulloidcs balteatns Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1870, 471 (St. 



Kilts). 

 Upeneus flavovittatus Poey, Mem. Cuba, i, 1851, 225 (Cuba). 

 Mulloidex flavovittatus Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., i, 1859, 403 



(Caribbean Sea ; Jamaica ; Cuba). 

 Upeneus parvus Poey, Mem. Cuba, i, 1859, 225 (Cuba). 



The specimens of this species examined by us are from Key 

 West :iinl Eavana. Poey lias identified his flavovittatus and 

 parvus with the balteatus of Cuvier and Valenciennes. There 

 seems to be little room for doubt that the scanty description of 

 martinicus re bis to this species also. 



