380 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Snbgemis PROMICROPTERCS Gill. 



Promicro2)ferits Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 53 (maculalKs). 



1649. Rypticus bistrispinus (Mitchill). 



South Atlantic Coast of United States; frequent off Charleston, Pensacola, 



and Key West; occasional as far north as Newport, Rhode Island. 

 Bodianiis bisfrispinosus Mitchill, Am. Monthly Magazine and Crit. Review, 

 February, 1818, 247, Straits of Bahama. 



1650. Rypticus nigripinnis Gill. 



Pacific Coast of tropical America, Cape San Lucas to Panama. 

 Ehypticus nigrijnnnis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 53, Panama. 



Family CXLIX. LOBOTID^. The Triple-tails. 



Genus 523. LOBOTES Cuvier. 

 Loboiea Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, ii, 177, 1829 {crate=surinamensis). 



1651. Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch). Flasher; TripJe-tail; Dormeur. 



Atlantic Coast from Cape Cod to Surinam ; Mediterranean. 

 Holocentriis surinamensis Bloch, Ichth., pi. 243, 1790, Surinam. 



1652. Lobotes pacificus Gilbert. 



Known only from Panama. 



Lobotes pacificus Gilbert, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, Panama. 



Family CL. PRIACANTHID-SJ. Catalufas. 



Genus 524. PRIACANTHUS Cuvier. 



Friacanthus Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. i, 281, 1817 {macrophthalnms). 



1653. Friacanthus arenatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Caialufa. 



West Indies, south to Brazil; occasionally northward in the Gulf Stream 



to Newport and Woods Hole. 

 FriacanUms arenatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 101, 1829, 



Brazil. 



1654. Friacanthus cruentatus (LacejjCde). Big Eye; Caialufa. 



West Indies to St. Helena and the Canaries. 



Labrus crneniatus La^^^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 522, 1800, Martinique; from 

 a copy by Aubriet of a plate made by Plumier at Martinique. 



Genus 525. PSEUDOPSIACANTHUS Bleaker. 

 Fseudopri acanthus Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Wet. Amsterd. (2), in, 241, 1869 

 (niphonius). 



1655. Fseudopviacanthus serrula (Gilbert). 



Pacific Coast of Colombia. 



Friacanthus serrula Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 450, west coast of 

 Colombia, at Albatross Station 2797. 



1656. Fseudopriacanthus altus (Gill). 



West Indies, north to Pensacola and Charleston. 



Friacanthus alius Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 132, Narragausett Bay. 



Family CLI. IiUTIANID.S]. The Snappers. 



Genus 526. HOPLOPAGRUS Gill. 



Hoplopafjrus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 253 (fjuntheri). 



1657. Hoplopagrus guntheri Gill. Fargo. 



Pacific Coast of tropical America, from Guaymas to Panama. 

 Hoplopafjrus guntheri Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 253, Cape San 

 Lucas, Lower California. 



