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The larger of the two measures 145'"'" to caudal base, and tlie smaller 108. 



In the annotated copy of edition xii, Linn6 has added the ^Yords 

 ''linea laterali curva." 



D. 9; A. 17-18, besides a minute one in front; V. 9; scales 10 — 46 or 

 47—3^, or 4J. 



The dorsal base is i as long- as the head. The fourth ray of the dorsal 

 is as long as the head. The head is two-ninths of the total length to 

 caudal base. The eye is as long as the snout, and about one fourth as 

 long as the head. The anal base is nearly as long as the head and 

 nearly onefifth of the length to caudal base. The fourth anal ray is as 

 long as the ventral. The length of the ventral equals one-half the 

 height of the body at the dorsal origin. The species is the southern 

 form of Notemigonus americanus. 



Heemulon arcuatum, C. & V. 



There is in the Linua^an collection a specimen of ITmnuJon arcuatum 

 from the Bahamas, which was sent to Linne by Garden in 1771, under 

 the name Marget Fish (No. 3 of list in Smith's "Correspondence," page 

 331), and which appears never to have been described by Linne. 



This is probablj^ the Margate Fish of Catesby, plate 2, figure I, 

 although this figure is without the blue stripes upon the cheeks. 

 Catesby's plate 6, figure 1, should probably be referred to another spe- 

 cies [Hwmnlon ehgans). 



The skin has: D. XII, 18; A. Ill, 9; Scales G-49-U. 



The attempt to saddle upon this fish the name Lahrns plnmicri, which 

 has been made ineffectually since the time of Lacepede, might as well be 

 abandoned. Plumier's painting labeled Turdus aureoco'ruleiis, repro- 

 duced in Lac, t. 3, pi. 2, page 84, fig. 2, and the description derived from this 

 figure upon page 482 of the same work, have no relation to any known 

 species of fish which has yet been satisfactorily demonstrated. Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes were misled by Linn6-s course in citing Catesby, plate 

 G, fig. 1 , in connection with his description of the Squirrel Fish, which 

 he received from Garden, and which he named Perca formosa. This is 

 evidently the species so long catalogued by American ichthyologists 

 under the name Diplectrum fasciculare. 



Plate C, of Catesby, upper figure, appears to represent the type of the 

 species described later by Cuvier and Valenciennes under the name 

 Swmulon clegans. 



Hasmulon Eciurus, Shaw. 



This species is represented in the Linnsean collection by a bad half skin, 

 apparently the ISTo. 4, "Yellow Grunt" of Garden's list ("Correspond- 

 ence," page 331), and corresponding to Catesby, plate 0, figure I. The 

 figure, however, does not represent the stripes upon the sides, which are 

 still evident in the Linne skin. 



The dorsal spines are not all present. 



Second dorsal, 1(3; A. Ill, 9; Scales 7-55-14. 



Linne never named this form. 



