2856 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



these fins otherwise brownish olive, with a subterniinal hand of hlack; 

 pectorals pale, darker in middle. Allied to Mrjcteroperca caUiura, ditt'er- 

 ing in havinfj fewer gill rakers, more slender body, smaller scales, and a 

 less lunate caudal. Jamaica; only 1 specimen, 6 inches long, known. 

 (Named for Timothy Hopkins.) 



Mycteroperca hopkinsi, Jordan & Rutter, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1897, 105, Jamaica. 

 (Type, No. 5073, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. J. S. Eoberts.) 



Page 1187. Insert: 



lo76(a). MYCTEROPERCA BOULENGERI, Jordan & Starks. 



Head 2| in length; depth 2f,. D. XI, 14 or 15; A. Ill, 9 or 10; scales 

 about 90, 20 above and 42 below; snout 31 in head; maxillary 2i; eye 5^; 

 pectoral If; ventral If;; longest anal ray If; caudal If; longest dorsal 

 saline 21; gill rakers short, about 6 + 17, the longest about f eye; longest 

 dorsal ray 2 in head. Body short and deep, compressed; head moderate, 

 compressed, its profile not steeji, nearly straight, a depression before eye. 

 The supraoccijjital and temporal crests are high, the supraoccipital crest 

 extending to the posterior margin of orbit; the temporal crests are paral- 

 lel to each other, and extending to pupil; interorbital space concave. 

 Upper canines moderate, the lower quite small. Nostrils small, well sep- 

 arated, the anterior slightly larger. Lower jaw very strongly projecting; 

 maxillary reaching oi)posite posterior edge of pupil. Preopercle slightly 

 notched, the angle slightly salient, with enlarged teeth. Dorsal not deeply 

 notched, the fourth spine not much elevated; second dorsal high, not long, 

 its angle not rounded; caudal scarcely lunate, the upi)er lobe long, the 

 lower truncate; anal very high, strongly elevated, its posterior border 

 incised, the anterior rounded; pectoral and ventral moderate. Scales 

 smoothish, not very small. Color olive gray, covered everywhere with 

 oblong irregular markings of black, between Avhich the ground color 

 forms rivulations ; gray lines radiating from the eye ; a black blotch below 

 maxillary; jiectoral oliv^e yellow; other fins blackish, clouded with i)ale; 

 lirst dorsal with faint small black spots. Mazatlan, Mexico. (Named for 

 George Albert Bouleuger, ichthyologist of the British Museum, in recog- 

 nition of his epoch marking work on the I'ercoid fishes.) 



Mycteroperca hotdengeri, Jordan & Starks, Fishes Sinaloa, 445, pi. :iS, 1895, Mazatlan, 

 Sinaloa, Mexico. (Type, No. 1621, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. Hopkins Exped. to 

 Sinaloa.) 



Page 1235. The original type of Lobotes is surinamensis, not erate. 



Lohotes erate is a species distinct from L. surinamensis, inhabiting the 

 coasts of India and China. Lobotes farkliari and L. incnrvus are probably 

 identical with L. erate, and all 3 should be erased from the synonymy of 

 L. surinamensis. 



Page 1236. After Lobotes surinamensis add : 



The Lobotes of the Pacific coast of Central America is distinguished 

 from the other known species, L, surinamensis and L. erate, by the small 



