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Rhypticus bistrispineus Boulenger, Catalogue of fishes in the British Museum, 



vol. 1, p. 350, 1895. 

 Rhypticus bistrispinosus RosfiN, Lunds Univ. Arsskr. Foljd, Afd. 2, Bd. 7, No. 5, 



p. 55, 1911. 

 Rypticus bistrispenus Breder, Field book of marine fishes of the Atlantic coast, 



p. 166, fig., 1929. 

 Promicropterus bistrispinus Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. 



Fisher, for 1928, pt. 2, p. 316, 1930. 

 Rypticus microps Castelnait, Animaux nouveaux ou rares recueillis . . . I'Ameri- 



que du Sud, p. 6, 1855. 

 Rypticus maculatus Holbrook, Ichthyology of South Carolina, p. 39, pi. 6, fig. 2, 



1855 (South Carolina) ; ed. 2, p. 42, pi. 6, fig. 2, 1860 (Cape Romain). 

 Rhypticus maculatus Gunther, Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, 



vol. 1, p. 173, 1859. — Jordan and Gilbert, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 16, p. 543, 



1882.— Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, p. 35, 1884. 

 Promicropterus maculatus Gill, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 53; 



1863, p. 164. 

 Promicropterus decoratus (non Gill) Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1870, p. 119. 

 Eleutheractis coriaceus Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, new. ser., vol. 14, p. 467, 



fig. 3, 1871. 

 Rypticus coriaceus Jordan and Eigenmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 8, p. 



341, 1890. — Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish and Fisher, for 



1895, app. 5, p. 379, 1896; U. S. Nat. Mus. BuU. 47, pt. 1, p. 1233, 1896.— 



Evermann and Marsh, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 20, pt. 1, p. 163, 1902. — 



Starks, The fishes of the Stanford expedition to Brazil, p. 45, 1913. — Beebb 



and Tee- Van, Zoologica, vol. 10, No. 1, p. 133, 1928. — Nichols, Sci. Surv. 



Porto Rico and Virgin Islands, New York Acad. Sci., vol. 10, pt. 2, p. 258, 



fig. 125, 1929. — Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fisher, for 



1928, pt. 2, p. 316, 1930. 



The following collections in the U. S. National Museum have been 

 examined: 



No. 21394. Bermudas, 1877. G. Brown Goode. 



No. 21544. Charleston, S. C, July 1878. C. C. Leslie. 



No. 25994. Charleston, S. C. C. C. Leslie. 



No. 30130. Jamaica, West Indies, 1881. Kingston Public Museum. 



No. 43278. Bahia, Brazil, 1887. Albatross. 



No. 44468. Patuca River, Honduras, January 1892. H. W. Perry. 



No. 44716. Central America, 1893. Frank P. Davis. 



No. 50188. Hucares, Puerto Rico, February 13, 1899. Fish Hawk. 



No. 53136. Nassau, Bahamas, July 2, 1903. B. A. Bean. 



No. 53367. Off New Smyrna, Fla., December 1, 1905. B. A. Bean. 



No. 62695. Palm Beach, Fla., December 7, 1908. B. A. Bean, Orian. 



No. 80232. Salt Water Division, Corozal, Panama, C. Z., February 15, 1911. 

 Meek and Hildebrand. 



No. 80234. Mindi Cut, Canal Zone, Panama, February 3-4, 1911. Meek and 

 Hildebrand. 



No. 89654. Petit Baraderes Bay, Haiti, April 9, 1930. Smithsonian-Parish Ex- 

 pedition. W. M. Perrygo. 



No. 106514. West coast of Florida, St. Martins, 28°34'45" N., 83°08'00" W.. 

 January 15, 1902. Fish Hawk station 7221. 



No. 106515. Gulf of Mexico, 28°47'30" N., 84°37' 00" W., March 15, 1885. 

 Albatross station 2407. 



