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 MJJLUDM. 



HYPENEUS MACULATUS, {Block) Guv. 

 Goat-fish. 



Pira metara, Makcgrave, Hist. &c. Brasil, 1648, 156, 181. 



Afullus vmculatus, Bloch, Ichth. x, 1797, 79, tab. 348.— Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Icbtb. 



1801,78. 

 Vpeneus maculahis,Cvv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 1829, 478.— Stoker, Syn. Fish. N. 



Am. 1846, 48.— PoEY, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cnba, i, 1853,223; ii, 1861, 367.— CASTEr.- 



NAU, Anim. Nouv. &c, Amdiique du Siul, Pois. 1855, 6. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. 



Brit. Mus. i, 1861, 408.— Cope, Traus. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 471. 

 Mullhypeneus vmculatus, Poey, Eep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 307. 



I did not secure a specimen, but was told tbat a fish of this descrip- 

 tion is common among the reefs. Godet, in his " History of Bermuda," 

 gives a description of color which is apparently taken from specimens 

 by him, which renders the identification sufBcientlj- certain. The spe- 

 cies is also recorded from Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique, and Eio de Ja- 

 neiro. 



BERYCID^. 



HOLOCENTRUM SOGO, Bloch. 

 Squirrel. 



Jaquaraca, Marcgrave, Hist. &c. Brasil, 1048, 147. 



Perca marina rubra, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Caroliua, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, ii.. 



1743, 2., tab. ii, f. 2. 

 Bodianus pentacanlhus, Bloch, Ichth. vii, 1797, 29, tab. ccxxxv (a badly-distorted cojiy 



of Marcgrave's figure). 

 Holocmtrus sogo, BhoCH, op. cit. 46, tab. ccxxxii. 

 Eolocentrum sogho. Gill, Cat.'Fish. E. Coast N. Am. 41, 186; aud in Baird's Rep. on Sea< 



Fisheries of South. New England, 1873, 804. 

 Holocentrus 7'ubellufi laminis branchiostegis serratis etc.. Brown, Hist. &c. Jamaica, 1799,. 



447. 

 Sogo holocentrus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. v. 1803, 555. 

 Bod ianus jaguar, LAC]&pi;DE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Slc. iv, 1803, 236. 

 Scioiena rubra, Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 82 (not Forskal). 

 Eolocentrum long'qnnne, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 1829, 181. — Storer, Syn- 



Fish. N. Am. 1846, 46.— GtiNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. i, 1861, 28.— Cope, 



Traus. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 465. 



Common; its bright color and nervous darting motions rendering it 



one of the most conspicuous denizens of the rock-pools. It is found 

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