36 PEOCEEDIXGS OF THE 



Garden, but that Linne received it from another source. The 

 type of Pevca trifurca, with the third and fourth dorsal spines 

 " auctus ramento setaceo longitudine ipsius spinas," seems to be 

 lost. 



(Linnean name.) (Modern name.) 



Perca guttata (? type). Serranus apna, Bl., C. Y. 



(157) Skin, II5 ill. long, in good condition. 



cfr. Mounted on a folio sheet, labelled by Linne' himself " Perca 

 146. giitiata, L." ; it is possible that the specimen came from 

 Garden, but there is no means even to conjecture at what time 

 Linne received it. 



Eeferred to by Goode & Bean as " Epinephelus lunulaius, 

 A. iii. 8," and by Jordan in Proc. U.S. Kat. Mas. 1885. 

 p. 396. I count nine soft rays in the anal fin. 



Perca guttata of the 10th and 12th editions is a merely 

 nominal species, based upon figures by previous authors, which 

 represent different fish. There is no indication in either edition 

 that Linne had this or any other specimen ; he even omitted to 

 give a fin-formula. Under such circumstances I consider it 

 best to ignore the name altogether, and to adopt the nomen- 

 clature of a later and better informed authority. But if the 

 name is to be retained for a definite species of Serranus, the 

 specimen in the Linnean collection may be utilized as type, as 

 it shows at any rate that Linne referred this fish to his "■Pcrca 

 guttata," whatever the limits are which he covered by that 

 name. 



I retain for this species a name given by Bloch and suffi- 

 ciently established by Cuvier-Yalenciennes, viz., Serramis aj>ua. 



If Mr. Boulenger (Cat. i. p. 210) refers to the synonymy of 

 this species Serranus maeulatus, Giinth. i. p. 130, I have to 

 reply that the latter has two rays less in the dorsal fin. 



Micropterus salmonoides. 



{Huro nigricans.) 



(158) Skin, 8^ in. long, in good condition. 



cfr. Marked with the figure " 8 '' in Garden's handwriling. 

 94. Ignored by Linne. 



Identified by Goode & Bean , p. 306. 



Labrus atiritus (? cotypes) . Pomotis punctatus. 



(159-60) Two skins, 4| in. long, in good condition. 



cfr. Mounted on paper, without anv marks. 



96-7. 



Spams rhomboides (cotype). Sargus rhomboides. 



(161) Skin, Oi in. long, in good condition. 



cfr. Garden's label : " No. 3. Mutton-fish," and on the reverse of 

 102-3. the label in Linne's handsvriting, ''Sjxcks Perca rJwmboidaUs " 

 (the word Perca struck out). 



This specimen must have belonged to a consignment different 

 from those mentioned in the Corresp. Linn. 



