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Subgenus PROHICUOPTERUS Gill. 



rromlcropierits Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 53 (viacnJafns). 



1649. Rypticus bistrispinus (Mitcliill). 



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



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

 Bodianiis hislriHpinosns 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. 

 Bhypticus niyripinni^ Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila. 1861. 53, Panama. 



Family CXLIX. LOBOTIDiE. The Triple-tails. 



Genus 523. LOBOTES Cuvier. 



Lohotes Cuvier, Regno Animal, ed. 2, ii, 177, 1829 (crate = surinamcvsis). 



1651. Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch). Flasher; Triple-fail; Dormcur. 



Atlantic Coast from Cape Cod to Surinam; Mediterranean. 

 Holoccntrii.s sitrinainoisis Bloch, Ichth., pi. 243, 1790, Surinam. 



1652. Lobotes pacificus Gilbert. 



Known only from Panama. 



Lohotes pacificm Gilbert, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1896, Panama. 



Family CL. PRIACANTHIDiE. Catalufas. 



Genus 524. PEIACANTHUS Cuvier. 



rriacanthn.s Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. i, 281, 1817 (macrophfhalmus). 



1653. Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Catalufa. 



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



to Newport and Woods Hole. 

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



Brazil. 



1654. Priacanthus cruentatus (Lac(?pede). Big Eye; Catalufa. 



West Indies to St. Helena and the Canaries. 



Lahruii cruentatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 522, 1800, Martinique; from 

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



Genus 525. PSEUDOPEIACANTHUS Bleeker. 



Pseudopriacanthus Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Wet. Amsterd. (2), iii, 241, 1869 

 {niphonius). 



1655. Pseudopriacanthus serrula (Gilbert). 



I'acitic Coast of Colombia. 



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

 Colombia, at Albatross Station 2797. 



1656. Pseudopriacanthus altus (Gill). 



West Indies, north to Pensacola and Charleston. 



Priacanthua alius Gill, Proc, Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 132, Narragansett Bay. 



Family CLI. LUTIANIDiE. The Snappers. 



Genus 526. HOPLOPAGRUS Gill. 



lIoplopaijruH (iill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 253 {(juniheri). 



1657. Hoplopagrus guntheri Gill. Pargo. 



Pacific Coast of tropical America, from Gnaymas to Panama. 

 Hoplopafirus qunlheri (Jill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 253, Cape Sau 

 Lucas, Lower California. 



