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15. Rhypticus saponaceua (Bloch & Sclineider) Cuv. & Val. 



{Eleutheractis coriaceus Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 467.) 



A single specimen from the stomach of a Eed Snapper. This is the 

 first record of this species from the waters of the United States. There 

 is nothing in the description of Eleutheractis coriaceus Cope to indicate 

 specific, much less generic difference. Oar specimen agrees well with 

 the figure of the latter, being, however, a little more slender. D. Ill, 

 25; A. 15 or 16. 



16. Rhypticus maculatus Holbrook. 



Dusky brown, somewhat clouded; sides with a few small, irregular 

 white spots ; fins dusky, the edge of the caudal pale. 



Body deep ; maxillary reaching to below posterior margin of eye, 2| 

 in head. Head 3 in length; depth 2^. D. II, 25 ; A. 14 or 15. 



17. Epinephelus stomias (Gobde & Bean) Jor. & Gilb. 



18. Serranus phcebe Poey. 



A young specimen, the first recorded from the waters of the United 

 States. It agrees very well with a Cuban specimen, but the white pre- 

 anal band is rather narrower in the latter. 



19. Serranus formosus (L.) Jor. &, Gilb. 



{Serranus fascicularis C. «fc V.) 



A single young specimen. In the young of this species the edge of 

 the preopercle forms a nearly even curve, armed with a strong spine. 

 Only in the adult is the characteristic division of these spines in two 

 sets, which suggested the name DipUctrum^ developed. 



20. Lutjanus caballerote (Bloch) Poey. 



(Lutjanus stearnsii Goode & Bean; Lutjanus caxis (young), and Lutjanus stearnsi 

 (adult), Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 275; Lutjanus 

 caxis, stearnsi, and caialJerote Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. A., 548, 

 549, 921.) 



I am unable to separate Lutjanus stearnsi from the common Gray 

 Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, or Caballerote of the West Indies, a species 

 to which we have hitherto applied the erroneous name of Lutjanus caxi^. 

 The latter species, the Dog Snapper, Schoolmaster, or Caji of the Florida 

 fishermen, has not yet been noticed north of Key West. The synonymy 

 of this and related forms has been much entangled. I hope later to give 

 a review of this genus, in which the relations of these different snappers 

 will be fully worked out. The true caxis has the posterior part of the 

 body and the caudal fin bright orange or yellow. 



21. Lutjanus campechianus Poey. 



(Lutjanus hlaclfordii Goode «V: Bean.) 



I have examined large numbers of specimens of the "Eed Snapper'' 

 or '■'■Pargo Guachinango''^ in the Key West fishing smacks and in the 

 markets of Havana, and I do not think that there is the slightest room 

 for doubt of the identity of this fish with the Eed Snapper of Pensacola, 



