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1988. HAKPE RUFA (Linnaeus). 

 (Lady-fish; Spanish Lady-fish ; Spanish Hogfish ; Pudiaxo; Perro Colorado.) 



Head 34; deptli nearly 3. D. XII, 9; A. Ill, 11 or 12; scales 5-32-13; 

 snout 3i in bead. Head longer than bigli ; anout pointed ; preopercle den- 

 ticulate; tins a little less produced than in //. diploUvnia. General color, 

 violet red above and anteriorly, yellow or orange bebiud and below; 

 lower part of sides and posterior part of body yellowish orange; upper 

 part of bead and body (as far back as a line joining base of pectoral and 

 soft dorsal) violet red; middle of caudal, bases of pectoral and ventrals, 

 and most of anal, violaceous. Length 2 feet. A handsomely colored tish, 

 generally common in the West Indies, about islands and reefs; north to 

 Key AVest, I3ermuda and St. Paul Rocks; south to Rio Janeiro; our speci- 

 mens are from Havana, {rufus, yellowish red.) 

 Pwdtenoi)enftpi7io,MARCGRAVE, Hist. Bras., 145,146,1648, Brazil; on a drawing liy Prince 



Maurice of Nassau. 

 Turdiis tiavus (the Hogfish), Catesby, N.it. Hist. Carolina, n, pi. 2, fig. 1, 1743, Bahamas. 

 ia6m8"r«/it.s,LiNN.mTS,Syst.Nat.,Ed.x,284,1758,and Ed. xn, 475, 1766; after Catesby; 



GOODE & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 200 (note on Liunasan specimen.) 

 Perro Colorado, Parea, Descr. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 3. lam. 3, tig. 1, 1787, Havana. 

 Bodianushodi(mm,Bi.ocH,Ichth.,YU,2-i, pL 223, 1790, Brazil; from a drawing hy Prince 



Maurice, the same used by MARcnRAVE. 

 Lutjanun verres, Bloch, Tchthyol., pi. 255, 1791, locality uncertain. 

 Sparus falcatus. Block, Ichthyol., pi. 258, 1791 ; after a drawing by Plumier, made at 



Martinique. 

 Labrus semiruber, LACEPf:DE, I. c, in, 428, 1802, Rio Janeiro; from notes by Commerson. 

 Bodianus 6ioc/tu-, LACEpfcUE, Hist. Nat. Pois8.,iv, 279, 290, 1803; after Bodianus bodianus, 



Bloch. ^, ^ 



Harpe coeruleo-aureus, LACEPfeDE, I. c, 426, 427, pi. 8, fig. 2, 1803, Martinique; from the draw- 

 ing of Plumier, used by Bloch. 

 Cogsyphus bodianus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiii, 103, 1839. 

 Cossyphus verres, Castelnau, Anlm. Nouv. on Rares Amerique du Sud, Ichth., 27, 1855. 

 Cossyphus rufus, Gunther. Cat., iv, 108, 1862; GIJnther, Shore-Fishes, Cliallenger, 14, 1880. 

 Harpe rufa, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 222; Goode, Fishes Bermudas, 37, 1876; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 601, 1883; Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, 629, 1890. 

 Bodianus rufus, POEY, Repertorio, II, 331, 1867; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 148; 



Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 45. 



1989. HARPE ECLAXCHERI (Valenciennes). 



Head 3* ; depth 3. D. XII, 10 ; A. Ill, 12 ; scales 32. Snout pointed with 

 the upper protile slightly concave; head longer than high; dorsal and 

 anal fins produced; caudal emarginate. General color vermilion, with 2 

 large, irregular, black blotches on the back and dorsal fin, the anterior on 

 theVrst 6 dorsal spines, the posterior extending over the whole soft dorsal 

 and over a portion of the back of the tail. (Valenciennes). This species 

 is known from Valenciennes's description and figure only. It much 

 resembles Harpe rufa, apparently differing only in color. Galapagos 

 Islands. (Named for M. Eclancher. ) 

 Cossyphus eclancheri, Valenciennes, Voy. V6nus, Zool., 340, Poiss., pi. 8, fig. 2, plates, 1846; 



text, 1855, Galapagos Islands; Gunther, Cat., iv, 108, 1862. 

 Harpe eclancheri, -J onuA^, Review Labroid Fishes, 630, 1890. 



