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Genus 835. IIOPROPOMA Gill. 



Liopropoma Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 52 {Perca 

 aberrans Poey). 



2429. Liopropoma aberrans (Poey). 



Coast of Cuba. 



Perca aberrans Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 125, Cuba. 



2430. Liopropoma longilepis Garman. 



Eastern Pacific in deep water. 



Liopropoma longilepis Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXIV, 1889, 

 47, lat. 7° 30' N., long. 78° 34' W. 



Genus 836. RYPTICUS Cuvier. Soapfishes. 



Rypticus Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, II, 1829, 144 (Anthias saponaceus 

 Bloch and Schneider). 



Smecticus Valenciennes, Ichth. Voy. Viuus, 1855, 305 (S. bicolor Val- 

 enciennes) . 



Eleutheractis Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1871, 467 {E. coriaceus 

 Cope) . 



Phijpticus authors, corrected spelling. 



2431. Rypticus saponaceus (Bloch and Schneider). Soapfish; Jabon; Jabon- 



cillo. 

 West Indies; Pensacola to west Africa and Brazil. 

 Jaboncillo Parra, Difer. Piezas de Hist. Nat., 1787, 51, lam. 24, fig. 2, 



Habana. 

 Anthias saponaceus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 310, 



Habana. 



2432. Rypticus arenatus Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



West Indies and coast of Brazil; recorded from Jamaica, Trinity, 



Barbados, and St. Thomas. 

 Rypticus arenatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829, 



48 (65), pi. 46, Brazil. 

 IRhypticus subbifrenatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 



53, St. Thomas. 

 TRhypticus nigromaculalus Steindachner, Ichth. Notiz., VI, 1867, 42, 



Barbados; dorsal with four spines instead of three. 



2433. Rypticus coriaceus (Cope). Black soapfish. 



West Indies; recorded from St. Martins and Jamaica. 

 Eleutheractis coriaceus Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870 (1871), 

 467, St. Martins. 



2434. Rypticus xanti (Gill). 



Pacific coast of Mexico, from Cape San Lucas to Colima and Mazatlan. 

 Rhypticus xanti Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 250, Cape 

 San Lucas. 



2435. Rypticus bicolor (Valenciennes). 



Galapagos Archipelago. 



Smecticus bicolor Valenciennes, Voy. V4mis, Poissons, 1855, 307, pi. 2, 

 fig. 2, Galapagos Archipelago. 



Genus 837. PROMICROPTERUS Gill. 



Promicropterus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 53 {Rhyp- 

 ticus maculatus \lo\\)x-ook = Bodianus bistrispinus Mitchill). 



2436. Promicropterus bistrispinus (Mitchill). Soapfish. 



South Atlantic coast of United States; frequent off Charleston, Pensa- 

 cola, and Key West; Porto Rico; occasional as far north as Newport, 

 R. I. 



Bodianus bis-irispinus Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag. and Crit. Review, 

 II, February, 1818, 247, Straits of Bahama. 



Rypticus maculatus Holbrook, Ichth. South Carolina, Ed. I, 1855, 39, 

 Cape Romain, S. C. 



Rhypticus pituitosus Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 1879, 

 341, Key West, Fla. 



