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4016. Cantherines puUus (Ranzani). Li ja Colorado. 



West Indies and coast of Brazil; southern Florida. 



Lija Colorado Parra, Dif. Piezas, etc., 1787, pi. 23, p. 49, Cuba. 



Monacanthus pullus Ranzani, Nov. Comm. Act. Sci. Inst. Bonon., V, 



1842, 4, pi. 1, Brazil. 

 Monacanthus macrocerus Holland, Ann. Sci. Nat., II, 1854, 327, pi. 12, 



fig. 1, Bahia. 

 Monacanthus ruppelii Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. Amer. Slid., Poiss., 



1855, 97, pi. 47, fig. 2, Bahia. 

 Monacanthus irroratus Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 330, Cuba. 

 Monacanthus striatus Poey, loc. cit., 329, Cuba. 

 Monacanthus parraianus Poey, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 18G3, 



185, Cuba; after Parra. 

 Monacanthus punctatus Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 437, Cuba. 



4017. Cantherines carolae (Jordan and McGregor). 



Islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico; Revillagigedo Islands. 

 IBalistes sandwichensis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. I'Uranie, Zool., 



1824, 214, Sandwich [Hawaiian] Islands. 

 ICantherines nasutus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Class. Fishes, II, 1839, 327; 



substitute for B. sandwichensis. 

 Cantherines carolas Jordan and McGregor, in Jordan and Evermann, 



Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 1898, 1713 (Clarion Island by error), 



Socorro Island. 



4018. Cantherines amphioxys (Cope). 



St. Martins Island, West Indies. 



Monacanthus amphioxys Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, 

 477, St. Martins Island. 



Subgenus MONACANTHUS. 



Genus 1436. MONACANTHUS Cuvier. 



Monacanthus Cuvier, Regne Anim., Ed. I, 1817, 152 {Balisles chinensis 

 Bloch). 



Trichodenna Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., Amphib., etc., II, 1839, 328 

 (Balistes scapus Lacep^de). 



Stephanolepis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 78 (Mona- 

 canthus setifer Bennett). 



4019. Monacanthus ciliatus (Mitchill). Leatherfish; Lija; Flapmingo. 



West Indies and Florida; Florida Keys. 



Balistes ciliatus Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag. and Crit. Rev., II, 



March, 1818, 326, Bahama Straits. 

 Monacanthus piraaca Kner, Reise Fregatte Novara um Erde, Zool., 



Fische, 1867, 396, Rio Janeiro. 

 Monacanthus occidentalis Giinther, Cat., VIII, 1870, 237, Puerto 



Caballo. 

 Monacanthus davidsonii Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. Phila., XIV, 



1870 (1871), 476, Florida Reef. 



Subgenus STEPHANOLEPIS Gill. 



4020. Monacanthus hispidus (Liruiaeus). Foolfish; Filefish; Leatherfish; 



Horny cony; Lija; Thread filefmh; Mingo. 



Cape Cod to Cuba; south Atlantic coast and Florida Keys; West Indies 

 to Brazil. 



Balistes hispidus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 1766, 405, Carolinas. 



Balisles broccus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc, I, 1815, 467, New York. 



Monacanthus jilamentosus Valenciennes, lies Canaries Ichth. Atl., 1S36, 

 95, pi. 16, fig. 1, Canaries. 



Monacanthus gallinula Valenciennes, loc. cit., 95, Canaries. 



Monacanthus varius Ranzani, Novi Comment Ac. Sci. Inst. Bonon., V, 

 1842, 6, PI. II, Brazil. 



Monacanthus viassachusettensis DeKay, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 

 336, pi. 57, fig. 187, Massachusetts Bay. 



Monacanthus setifer DeKay, loc. cit., 337, pi. 59, fig. 194, New York. 



Monacanthus signifer Storer, Synop. Fish. N. Amer., 1846, 497, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Monacanthus auriga Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Load., 1850, 253, Madeira. 



