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A half skin without anal fin is labeled as above. Its length without 

 caudal is 230"""- 



D. XVII, 10 (see Linn6 xii, 475) ; scales at least 65 in lateral line. 



The species is evidently the Tautog, and if the genus Hiatula, based 

 upon a mutilated specimen, is considered worthy of retention, we must 

 call our species Hiatula hiaUda. 



Perca saltatrix. 



LiXNE, Syst. Nat. ed. x, p. 2i):{. 



This is a useless name and should be ignored forever hereafter. It 

 is founded upon Catesby's Ferca marina sectatrix, a species of Kyiiliosvs 

 (Pimelepterus), familiarly known as P. Bosci, p. 8, pi. 8, 2d fig. The 

 name saltatrix was a lapsus penna^ of Linuieus. In the annotated copy 

 of edition x the name is changed to sectatrix^ and so appears in edition 

 xii, p. 480. The Gasterosteus saltatrix of ed. xii refers clearly to Poma- 

 tomus, and is collated with pi. 14 of Catesby. 



Perca rhomboidalis, L. 



LiNNE, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 293. 



This is a half skin of Lagodon rhomhoides. The length without caudal 

 is 183'"™. 



D. XII, 11; A. Ill, 11; Sc. 9-65-16. 



This is Perca rhomboidalis of edition x, page 293, as is indicated by 

 identical synonymy, and the note in Linne's handwriting referring 

 Perca rJiomboidalis to the genus Sparus. 



Perca punctatus, L. 



LiNNE, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 482. 



The Perca punctata of the tenth edition, page 291, is founded upon 

 Caiesby's "Xegro Fish — Perca marina puncticulata^^ — pag<^ 7, Plate VII, 

 upper figure, and is apparently a species oi Epineplielus. By a slip of the 

 pen Linue wrote -punctata instead of puncticulata; it was doubtless his 

 intention to call the species pwicticulata, foUowiug Catesby, otherwise 

 the auonudy of two species of the same name in the same genus would 

 hardly have occurred. 



Perca punctatus, edition xii, 482 (changed to punctata in the anno- 

 tated coj)y of edition xii, in Linne's handwriting), is founded upon two 

 specimens of Bairdiella, sent by Garden (No. 12, Yellow-Tail), this la- 

 beled Perca punctata in Linne's writing being still preserved by the 

 Liiinean Society of London. 



Xo. 5, Garden. Sea Trout. 



The basis of the description of Perca puyiciaius^ edition xii, 482, was 

 l^erhaps in part a specimen of Cynoscion maculatuni, Garden's Xo. 2 

 {Bairdiella), and Xo. 5 {Cynoscion maculatum), both having probably 

 been included under the name Yellow-Tail (Correspondence, page 312), 

 and the description of color in P. punctatus, "Corpus liueis plurimis 

 e punctis nigris," might have reference to the latter. 



D. X, i, 24; A. I, 10. 



