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2501. Verrugato paciflcus (Gilbert). Berrugate. 



Panama. 



Lobotes pacificus Gilbert, in Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and 

 Mid. Amer., 189S, 2857, Panama. 



Family 201. XENICHTHYID.ffi 



Genus 861. XENICHTHYS Gill. 



Xenichthys Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, 82 (X. xanti 

 Gill). 



2502. Xenichthys xanti Gill. 



Pacific coast of tropical America, from Cape San Lucas to Panama. 

 Xenichthys xanti Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, 82, Cape 



San Lucas. 

 Xenichthys xenops Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U, S. Fish Com., I, 1881, 



325, Panama. 



Genus 862. XENISTIUS Jordan and Gilbert. 



Xenistius Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, 920 (Xenichthys cali- 

 forniensis Steindachner) . 



2503. Xenistius calif orniensis (Steindachner). 



Pacific coast of America, from San Diego southward to Guaymas, 



Mexico. 

 Xenichthys californiensis Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., Ill, 1876, 3, 



San Diego. 



Family 202. HOPLOPAGRID.ffl 



Genus 863. HOPLOPAGRUS Gill. 



Hoplopagrus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 78; and 

 1862, 253 (Hoplopagrus guntheri Gill.) 



2504. Hoplopagrus guntheri Gill. Pargo. 



Pacific coast of tropical America, from Guaj^mas to Panama. 

 Hoplopagrus guntheri Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 78, 

 and 1862, 253, Cape San Lucas, Lower California. 



Family 203. lUTIANIDiE. Snappers 



Genus 864. LUTIANUS Bloch. 



Lutianus Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fische, IV, 1790, 105 (L. lutianus Bloch), 

 Diacope Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, I, 1816, 360 (Holocentrus 



bengalensis Bloch, preoccupied). 

 Mesoprion Cuvier (Regne Animal, 143), Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. 



Nat. Poiss., II, 1828, 441 (L. lutianus Bloch). 

 Genyoroge Cantor, Jour. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XVIII, 1849, 12 



(Diacope sebse Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Neomsenis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., X, 1858 (1859), 167 



(Lobotes emarginatus Baird and Girard = Lo6rus grise^is Linnaeus). 

 Hypoplites Gill, loc. cit., XIV, 1862, 236 (Mesoprion retrospinis Cuvier 



and Valenciennes). 

 Evoplites Gill, loc. cit., 236 (Mesoprion pomacanthus Bleeker, young of 



L. kasmira). 

 Lutjanus Bloch and later writers, change of spelling; the word from 



the Indian "Lutjang." 



Subgenus EVOPLITES Gill. 



2505. Lutianus viridis (Valenciennes). 



Rocky islands of the eastern Pacific; known from Galapagos, Tres 



Marias, and Revillagigedo Islands. 

 Diacope viridis Valenciennes, Voy. Vinus, 1855, 303, pi. 1, fig. 2 (very 



bad), Galapagos Islands. 



Subgenus NEOM.ffiNIS Girard. 



2506. Lutianus jordani (Gilbert) 



Panama; Cocos Island. 



Neomxnis jordani Gilbert, in Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North 

 and Mid. Amer., 1896, 1252, Panama. 



