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D. 87 ; A. G9 (and not 79, as Linne gives it). Scales as in the xirececl- 

 ing, thouj^h not counted. 



There is no doubt whatever that this specimen of lunatus and the one 

 of flentatus belong to the same species. There is no proof that the one 

 marked lunatus came from Garden, but the writing seems to be his. 

 Chaetodon alepidotus, L. 



LiNNiS, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 460. 



The types of Chmtodon alepidotus are still preserved ; the fin formulae 

 being as recorded by Linn6. 



The Mromateus paru of Linne, ed. x, 248, ed. xii, 432, was founded en- 

 tirely upon Sloan's figure, pi. 250, fig. 4. While the subject of this figure 

 may possibly have been the common long-finned Stromateus of the At- 

 lantic coast of the United States, we prefer to retain the specific name 

 alepidotus, which is accompanied by a description based upon the study 

 of specimens, and concerning which there can be no doubt. Sloan's de- 

 lineation of the pampus is at the best but a gross caricature, and Linne 

 himself was unable to consider it identical with Garden's specimens, 

 which he described under another name, alepidotus. 



Chaetodon triostegus, L. 



LiXNE, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 463. 



No. 22, Garden. Angel Fish. 



In the twelfth edition Linn6 referred the angel fish, which he had re- 

 ceived from Garden, to Chaetodon triostegus, a species which he had pre- 

 viously described, edition x, page 274, as having its " habitat in Indiis." 



In the annotated copy of edition xii, page 463, the reference to the 

 Garden specimen, with the descriptive paragraph, is erased, with the re- 

 mark, " Pertinet ad Chcetodon faher,^'' this species having been described 

 by Broussonet in 1782. 



The specimen evidently represents the common American form, 

 Chwtodipterus faher. 



Sparus chrysops, L. 



LiNNfe, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 471. 



No. 6, Garden. Porgee. 



The name Sparus chrysops is in Linux's writing. The type of the 

 species measures 190°'™ to base of caudal, and has the following charac- 

 ters : 



D. XII, 12, and not XIII, 11, as stated by Linne ,• the thirteenth, which 

 Linne mistook for a spine, is really a ray, broken off and somewhat sharp 

 at the point, and the articulations can be very plainly seen with a mag- 

 nifying glass of low power. 



A. Ill, 11 ; scales C or 7-50-15. 



The third dorsal spine is one-fourth as long as the entire dorsal base, 

 and slightly longer than the seventh and eighth spines. The tips of the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth spines are broken off. 



