1 98 Miscellaneo us . 



to an inquiry for them, gave them in a memoir entitled " Genres 

 des Poissons de la Faune de Cuba appartenant a la Famiile Percidse, 

 avec une Note d'introduction par J. Carson Brevoort " *. Prof. Poey's 

 diagnosis was as follows : — 



" Le genre Hi/poplectrodes a ete propose par Mr. Gill, Proc. Acad. 

 Phil. 1862, p. 236, pour le PI. nigro-rnbrum, C. et V. II est plus 

 allonge que le PI. serratum ; les dentelures du bord montant du 

 preopercule sont plus fines ; il n'y a au bord inferieur que deux 

 pointes dirigees en avant, dont I'une a Tangle. D. 10, 17 ; A. 3, 8." 



I have to confess that I myself had forgotten having named this 

 genus, or, at least, failed to connect with it the Plectropoma Hantii 

 of Hector of New Zealand, and consequently adopted the name 

 Gilhertia of Jordan and Eigenmann, who had overlooked the pre- 

 vious proposition of the genus by Gill and Poey. 



The facts of the case, then, are expressible in the following 

 synonymy : — 



Genus Hypoplectrodes. 



Ilypoplectrocles, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1862, p. 236 (with 

 typonvm onlv) (1862) ; Poev, Ann. New York Lye. Nat. Hist. x. 

 y. 45," 1871 (defined). 



Gilhertia, Jordan and Eigenmann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. viii, p. 346 

 (1890). 



The species of Hy2JopT.ectrodes, according to Mr. Boulenger's t 

 views, are four in number, viz. : — 



1. H. scmicinctvs = Plectropoma semicincfum, C. V. = P. Huntii, 



Hector. 

 South Australia, New Zealand, Chile. 



2. H. annidatus = Plectropoma annulntum, Giinther. 



South Australia. 



3. H, nigroruber. 

 South Australia. 



4. -^. (?) armatus= Serranus armatus, Castelnau. 

 Australia (Swan River). 



It may be added that the name Gilhertia was also given in 1891 J 

 by Lord Walsingham to a genus of Pterophoroid Lepidopters. — 

 Proc. U.S. JSat. Mus. vol. xviii. no. 1082, pp. 567, 508. 



* ' Annals of the Lvceiim of Natural History of New York,' x. pp. 27-79. 



t Vol. i. pp. 306-309. 



X Ent. Monthly Mag. (2) ii. p. 259. 



