338 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1256. Myripristis occidentalis Gill. 



West coast of America, from Cape San Lucas to Panama. 

 Mijriopristis occidentalis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 87, Cape San 

 Lucas. 



1257. Myripristis poecilopus (Gill). 



West coast of America, from Cape San Lucas to Panama. 

 Bhamphobenjx pcccUopus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 87, Cape San 

 Lucas. 



Genus 384. HOLOCENTRTJS Gronow. Squirrel-fishes. 

 Holocentrus Gronow, Zoophyl., 65, 1763 (rostratus). 



1258. Holocentrus ascensionis (Osbeck). Matejuelo ; Squirrel-fish; Welshman; 



Sold ado . 

 Florida to St. Helena; Cuba. 

 Perca ascensionis Osbeck, Iter Chin., 388, 1771, Ascension Island. 



1258a. Holocentrus ascensionis rufus (Walbaum). 

 Bahia; Cuba. 



Ferca rnfa Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 351, 1792, Bahamas; after 2>erca marina 

 r%ibra of Catesby. 



1259. Holocentrtis siccifer Cope. 



Bahamas. 



Molocentrum sicciferum Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, xxx, 1866, 465, 

 New Providence, Bahamas. 



1260. Holocentrus suborbitalis Gill. Mojarra Cardinal. 



Mazatlan to Panama. 



Holocentrum suborhitale Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 86, Cape San 

 Lucas. 



1261. Holocentrus coruscus Poey. 



West Indies; Cuba and the Bahamas. 



Holocentrum coruscum Poey, Memorias, ii, 1.58, 1860, Cuba. 



1262. Holocentrus brachypterus Poey. 



Cuba. 



Holocentrus brachypterus Poey, Eepertorio, 184, 1866, Cuba. 



1263. Holocentrus marianus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Marian. 



West Indies: Cuba, Jamaica, and Martinique. 



Holoncenfrum marianum Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 219, 

 1829, Martinique. 



1264. Holocentrus vexillarius Poey. 



Cuba. 



Holocentrum vexillarium Poey, Memorias, ii, 158, 1860, Cuba. 



1265. Holocentrus osculus Poey. 



Cuba. 



Holocentrum osculum Poey, Memorias, ii, 156, 1860, Cuba. 



1266. Holocentrus sancti-pauli Giinther. 



St. Paul Rocks, mid-Atlantic. 



Holocentrum sancti-pauli Gunther, Shore Fishes, 4, 1880, St. Paul Rocks. 



Genus 385. PLECTRYPOPS Gill. 



Plectnjpops Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 237 {retrospinis) . 



1267. Plectrypops retrospinis (Guicheuot). 



Cuba. 



Holocentrum retrospinis Guichenot, in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 35, pi. 

 1, tig. 3, 1850, Cuba. 



