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^Serranus mentzelii Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., II, 1828, 216 



(291), coast of Brazil. 

 Perca robusta Couch, Mag. Nat. Hist., V, 1832, 21, fig. 7, Polperro, 



Cornwall. 

 Serranus marginatus Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., pt. 1, 1833, 142, 



Madeira. 

 Serranus fimbriaius Lowe, Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc, 1836, 195, pi. 1, 



Madeira. 

 'iEpinephelus hrachysoma Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1871, 



466, Rio Janeiro. 



2388. Epinephelus labriformis (Jenyns). 



Pacific coast of tropical America; Cape San Lucas to Galapagos Islands. 

 Serranus labriformis Jenyns, Voyage Beagle, Fishes, 1842, 8, pi. 3, 



Galapagos Islands. 

 Epinephelus sellicauda Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 



250, Cape San Lucas. 

 Epinephelus ordinatus Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1871, 466, 



Panama. 



2389. Epinephelus flaVolimbatus Poey. Yellow-finned grouper. 



West Indies, north to Pensacola. 



Epinephelus flavolimbatus Poey, Repertorio, I, 1866, 183, Cuba. 



2390. Epinephelus niveatus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Spotted grouper; 



Snowy grouper. 

 West Indies to Brazil, occasionally northward in the Gulf Stream as 



far as Newport, R. I., and Woods Hole, Mass. 

 Serrarius niveatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 1828. 



285 (380), Brazil. 

 Serranus margaritifer Giinther, Cat., I, 1859, 131, South America. 

 Serranus conspersus Poey, Memorias, II, 1860, 139, Cuba. 

 Hyporthodus flavicauda Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 



98, Newport, R. I. 



2391. Epinephelus striatus (Bloch). Nassau grouper; Hamlet; Cherna 



criolla; Grouper; Rockfish. 



West Indian fauna; Key West to Brazil. 



Cherna Parra, Dif. Piczas, 1787, 50, Habana. 



Anthias striatus Bloch, Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, VI, 1792, 125, Mar- 

 tinique; on figure by Plumier. 



Anthias cherna Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 310, Cuba; 

 after Parra. 



Sparus chrysomelanurus Lac<5pdde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1803, 160, 

 Martinique; on a copy of Plumier. 



2392. Epinephelus guttatus (Linnaeus). Cabrilla; Red hind. 



West Indies; Carolina to Brazil, occasionally north to Charleston, the 

 .Florida Keys, and the Bermudas. 



Perca guttata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 292, Brazil; after 

 Marcgrave, in part, but with a type specimen, examined by Lonn- 

 bcrg. 



Cabrilla Parra, Dif. Piczas, Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, 93, pi. 36, Habana. 



Lutjanus lunulatus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 329; 

 after Parra, not L. lunulatus of Park. 



Serranus catus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat, Poiss., II, 1828, 

 1.0 (373), Martinique. 



Serranus maculosus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 332; verified by 

 Boulcnger. 



Serranus arara Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 283 (377), Habana. 



Epinephelus cubanus Poey, Repertorio, I, 1866, 202, Cuba. 



Serranus stadthouderi Vaillant, Miss. Sci. Mex., Poiss., 1877, 69, sub- 

 stitute for maculosus regarded as preoccupied by maculalus. 



2393. Epinephelus angustifrons (Steindachner). 



Coa.st of Cuba. 



Serranus angustifrons Steindachner, Verh. Ges. Wieu, XIV, 230, PI. 

 VII, figs. 2 and 3, 1864, Cuba. 



