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This si)e('iuieii is kiioAvii to us from several specimens in the U. S. 

 National Museum, from diflerent points in the West Indies, and from 

 the types of iZ. honarit'nsei.iu(]. IT. catina Cuv. & Val. in the museum at 

 Paris. Two specimens seiit by Poey from Havana are in the museum 

 at Cambridge. One of these (10570) is the type of Hcvmulon notatum 

 Poey. It is closely allied to //. [xirra, difiering in the color, in the 

 larger size of the scales and the differences in their arrangement, and 

 in the longer snout and smaller mouth. 



Tlie synonymy of this species and the next is badly entangled, and 

 we are not sure that we have correctly distributed it all. Our fish 

 seems to correspond to the Hwmulon notatum, continuum, and retrocur- 

 rens of Poey. The other names of Poey {acntum, albidum, and scrratum) 

 seem to refer rather t(^ the next species. The name H. canna, having 

 been first used for H. parr a, should give place to Hwmulon bonariense. 



37. H^MULON PARRA. 



(Sailor's Choice; Ronco Blanco; Ronco Prieto; Bastard Margaret.) 



Uiemulon caudimacitia Cuvier, Rfegae Animal, ed. 2, 1829 (on Uribaco Marcgrave aud 

 Diabase de Farra Desmarest) ; Cuv. &, Yal, v, 2.36, 1830 (Bahia, Cuba); 

 Guntber, i, 18.59, 313 (copied) ; Poey, Repertorio, i, 1867, 310; Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1881, 322 (redescriptiou of original type). 



Uwmulon canna Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 1829, p. 130, pi. 69 (not of Cuv. & Val.) 

 (Brazil). 



Ha'mulon chromis (Broussonet Mss.) Cuv. & Val., v, 242, 1830 (Jamaica) ; Giiutber, Cat. 

 Fisb. Brit. Mus., i, 310 (Babia, Jamaica). 



Diabasia chromis, Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fisb. N. A., 1883, 924 (Garden Key) ; Beau, Cat. 

 Fisb. Exb. London, 1883, 58 (Garden Key). 



Diahasis parra Desniarest, Preni. Decade Icbtbyol., 30, tab. 2, f. 2, 1823 (Havana). 



Hwuudon parra, Jordan, 1. c, 1889, 648 (St. Lucia) ; Jordan, 1. c, 1890, 319 (Babia). 



Hu'inulon acutitm Poey, Memorias de Cuba, ii, 180, 354, 1860 (Cuba) ; Poey, Synopsis, 

 315, 1868; Poey, Enumeratio, 45, 1875; Bean & Dresel, Proc U. S. N. ^I. 1884, 

 158 (Jamaica) ; Jordan & Swain, 1. c, 294. 



Uiemulon albidum Poey, Memorias, ii, 181, 1860 (Cuba); Poey, Synopsis, 316; Poey, 

 Enumeratio, 46. 



Hwmulon serratum Poey, Memorias, ii, 181, 1860 (Cuba); Poey, Synopsis, 317; Poey, 

 Enumeratio, 46; Poey, Anal. Hist. Nat. Madrid, 1881, 201 (Puerto Rico). 



Anarmostus serratiis, Putnam, Bull. M. C. Z., 12, 1863 (name only). 



Hivmulon parne, Jordan, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1884; Jordan, Proc. U. S. N. M., 1884, 126 (Key 

 West). 



Ha'mulon parra: Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. on Rar. Amer. du Sud, 10, 1855 (Babia). 



? Hwmulon brevirostntm Giiutber, Fisbes Centr. Amer., 1869, 419 (in part, specimen 

 from Puerto Cabello). 



Habitat: West Indies; southern Florida to Brazil. 



Etymology: Named for Don Antonio Parra, Avho first wrote on the 

 natural history of Cuba. 



This sj)ecies is common at Key West, where it is known as "sailor's 

 choice." It is not very often brought into the market, on account of 

 its rather small size. The young are abundant along the shores, in 

 number inferior only to //. jtJxiHicri and IT. rimator. At Havana it is 

 still more common, being brougiit into the market in large numbers 



