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The Hind is subject to great variations of color, specimens from the 

 "Whitewater", where there is a bottom of white sand, being nearly 

 white, while others have the ground-color a dusky reddish-brown. 



The descriptions of Gmelin and Bloch were both founded upon draw- 

 ings, and their relations are somewhat doubtful. The former has been 

 preferred, since the figure of Catesby agrees precisely with the Bermuda 

 '' Hind", except in the smaller number of dorsal spines, a matter of detail 

 not likely to have been noticed by Catesby, judging from his other fig- 

 ures. The Bermudian form is much more likely to be identical with that 

 from the Bahamas and Jamaica than that from Brazil, if, indeed, they 

 are not all identical. Giinther records from Jamaica his Serranus apua, 

 which is, beyond a doubt, the Bermuda species, thus furnishing another 

 argument for its identity with that figured by Sloane. 



ENNEACENTRUS PUNCTATUS, {Linne) Poey. 



BuTTER-FiSH or CoNEY {yelloiD variety) ; ;Nigger-fish {red variety). 



Carauna, Marcguave, Hist. &c. Brasil, 1648, 147. — Lichtenstein, Abhandl. Akad. Berl. 



1820-1, 278. 

 Perca marina puncticuJata (Negro-fish), Catesby, Nat. Hist. Caroliua, Florida, and Ba- 

 hamas, ii, 1743, 7, pi. vii. 

 Perca punctata, Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i, 1758, 291 ; ed. 12, 17G6, 485 (on Catesby's 



figure). 

 Enneacentrus jntnctatus, Poey, Rep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 288. 

 G)iativere, Parra, Descr. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, 7, lam. v, f. 1, 2. 

 Holocentrus auratus, Bloch, Ichth. vii, 1792, 57, tab. ccxxxvi. — Schneider, Bloch, Syst. 



Ichth. 1801, 314. 

 Gymnoceiihalus ruhei; Schneider, op. cit. 346, tab. Ixvii (on a figure by Prince Maurice). 

 Serranus ouataliM, Cuv. & VAL.,Hi8t. Nat. Poiss. ii, 1829, 381. — Storer, Syn. Fish. N.Am. 



1846, .56. — GuiCHENOT, Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Poiss. 1845, 15. — MtJLL. & 



Trosch., Schomburgh's Hist. Barbados, 1848, 665. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus. i, 1861, 120.— Poey, op. cit. 202.— Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila. 1870, 



446. 

 Epinephelus ouataUhi, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, 105. 

 Bodianus guativere, Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, 336 (on Parra's figures). 

 Serranus guativere, Cuv. & Val., op. cit. 383 (limited to Parra's f. 2). — Storer, 1. c. — 



MtJLL. & Trosch., 1. c. — Cope, 1. c. 

 Serranns carauno, Cuv. & Val., op. cit. 384 (on a drawing by Prince Maximilian). — 



Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. ou Rares, Am6rique du Sud, Poiss. 1, pi. 1, fig. 1. 



Common ; recorded also from the West Indies, Brazil, and the Cape 

 Verde Islands. Its small size and the softness of its flesh render it of 

 little economic value. In this species, as in the preceding, the range 

 of color is very great; some individuals are orange-yellow, with blue 



