568 NOTE ON CERTAIN SEERANOID FISHES— aiLL. vol. xvii 



II. 



The name Gilbertia of Jordan and Eigenmann was adopted by Mr. 



Boulenger^ in x)lace of Hypoplectrodcs, because tlie latter was supposed 

 to have '' no definition." On tlie page referred to by Mr. Bouleuger, 

 indeed, no definition was given, but later (in 1871) Professor Poey, to 

 wliom Iliad indicated the characters in response to an inquiry for them, 

 gave them in a memoir entitled " Genres des Poissons de la Faune de 

 Cuba appartenant a la Famille Fcrcidw, avec uue ISTote d'introduction 

 par J. Carson Brevoort."^ Prof. Poey's diagnosis was as follows: 



Le genre Hypoplecirodes a, 6t6 propos6 par Mr. Gill, Proc. Acad. Phil., 1862, p. 236, 

 pour le PI. nigro-ruhrum, C. et V. II est plus allonge que le PJ. serraium; les 

 dentelures du bord montant du prdopercule sont plus fines; il u'y a au bord in- 

 f6rieur que deux pointes dirig6es en avant, dont I'une a Tangle. D. 10, 17; A. 3, 8. 



- I have to confess that I myself had forgotten having named this 

 genus, or at least failed to connect with it the Flectropoma huntii of 

 Hector of New Zealand, and consequently adopted the name Gilhertia 

 of Jordan and Eigenmann who had overlooked the previous proposi- 

 tion of the genus by Gill and Poey. 

 The facts of the case, then, are expressible in the following synonymy : 



Genus HYPOPLECTRODES. 



Rypoplectrodes, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1862, p. 236 (with typonym 

 only) (1862).— Poey, Ann. New York Lye. Nat. Hist., X, p. 45, 1871 (defined). 

 Gilbertia, Jordan & Eigenmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., VIII, p. 346, 1800. 



The species of E'y2)oplectrodes, according to Mr. Boulenger's^ views, 

 are four in number, viz : 



1. H. semicinctus=Plectropoma semicinctumCY.=P. huntii, Hector. 

 South Australia, New Zealand, Chile. 



2. H. annulatus=Plectropoma aunulatum, Glinther. 

 South Australia. 



3. H. nigroruber. 

 South Australia. 



4. H. (?) armatus=Serranus armatus, Castelnau. 

 Australia (Swan Eiver). 



It may be added that the name Gilbertia was also given in 1891^ by 

 Lord Walsingham to a genus of pterophoroid lepidopters. 



iVol. I, p. 306. 



2 Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, X, pp. 27-79. 



^^Yol. I, pp. 306-309. 



<Ent. Monthly Mag. (2), II, p. 259. 



