320 tJ. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



2464. Centristhmus signifer Garman. 



Off Bay of Panama in deep water. 



Centristhmus signifer Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXIV, 1899, 

 48, Pi. LXIX, off Bay of Panama. 



Genus 846. DULES Cuvier. 



Dules Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, II, 1829, 147 {Dules auriga Cuvier 



and Valenciennes). 

 Eudulus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LIX, 1907, 264 (Dules 



auriga Cuvier and Valenciennes; Dulus being a genus of birds. 



2465. Dules auriga Cuvier and Valenciennes. Coachman; Charioteer. 



Coasts of Brazil and Uruguay, and occasionally northward. 



Dules auriga Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829, 83 



(112), pi. 51, Brazil. 

 Centropristis brasiliensis Brissot de Barneville, Revue Zoologique, 1847, 



131, Bahia. 



Genus 847. CALLIDULUS Fowler. 



Callidulus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LIX, 1907, 265 (Cen- 

 tropristes subiigarius Cope). 



2466. Callidulus flaviventris Cuvier and Valenciennes. Grassy ground rock- 



fish. 

 Tropical America, Charleston to Brazil. 

 Dides flaviventris Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829, 



85, Brazil. 

 Centropristis dispilurus Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 99, 



Trinidad. 

 Centropristis subiigarius Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XXII, 



1870, 120, Pensacola, Fla. 



Genus 848. PARANTHIAS Guichenot. 



Brachyrhinus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 286 (Serranus 

 creolus Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Paranthias Guichenot, Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine-et-Loire, X, 1868 (Ser- 

 ranus furcifer Cuvier and Valenciennes = <Se?TanMs creolus Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes) . 



Creolus Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1882, 

 XXXVI (withdrawn in the text) (Serranus furcifer Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes) . 



2467. Paranthias furcifer (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Rabirubia de lo alto; 



Creole fish. 

 Both coasts of tropical America, Cuba to Brazil, Cape San Lucas to 



the Galapagos Archipelago. 

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



196 (264), Brazil. 

 Serranus creolus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 197 (265), Marti- 



nicjue; San Domingo. 

 Corvina oxyptera DeKay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 77, PI. XXX, 



fig. 96, locality unknown. 

 Serranus colonus Valenciennes, Voy. V^nus, Zool., 1855, 300, pi. 2, fig. 1, 



Galapagos Islands. 



Genus 849. OCYANTHIAS Jordan and Evermann. 



Ocyanthias Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 

 1896, 1227 (Aijlopon martinicensis Guichenot). 



2468. Ocyanthias martinicensis (Guichenot). 



West Indies. 



tAylopon martinicensis Guichenot, Anthiani, Ann. Linn. Soc, X, 1868, 

 Martinique. 

 Genus 850. HYPOPLECTRUS ^s Gill. Vacas. 



Hypoplectrus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 236 (Plectro- 

 poma piiella Cuvier and Valenciennes = variety of Perca unicolor 

 Walbaum) . 



" The West Indian forms correctly referred to this species fall into several groups here provisionally 

 designated as subspecies of the form first named (H. unicolor), apparently differing only in color. These 

 range from mottled olive and orange to intense indigo blue. 



