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No. 106625. Gatun Locks, C. Z., January 4, 1935. S. F. Hildebrand. 



U. S. B. F. No. 863. Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, January 19, 1899. Fish Hawk. 



Specimens from the Field Museum: 



No. 5295. Nonsuch Islands, Bermuda. T. H. Bean. 

 No. 2824. Jamaica. Roberts. 



RYPTICUS SUBBIFRENATUS Gill 



Rhypticus subbifrenatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 53 (St. 



Thomas in Caribbean); 1863, p. 164. 

 Rhypticus nigromaculatus Stbindachner, Sitzber. math.-uat. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



vol. 56, pt. 1, p. 348 [42], 1867.— Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., vol. 9, p. 



581, 1887. 

 Rypticus nigromaculatus Jordan and Eigenmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 



8, p. 341, 1890. 

 Rhypticus spec. juv. Metzblaar, Rep. Toestand Visscherij Curasao, pp. xvii, 58, 



fig. 22, 1919. 



The color of R. subbifrenatus consists of 5 or 6 horizontal rows 

 of black or brown spots, one along base of dorsal lin, which sometimes 

 branches ofi' the one that begins over eye and extends along back to 

 below end of soft dorsal fin ; another or a branch of the latter begins at 

 anterior end of lateral line, sometimes dividing below spinous dorsal 

 to form two irregular rows ; the longest" and most regular row begins 

 behind middle of eye and consists of three or four oblong spots on 

 head, extending posteriorly along middle of body to base of caudal fin; 

 the ventralmost row begins on preopercle in front of the pectoral fin 

 base, continuing backward to under side of caudal peduncle; there 

 are a few black spots near basal half of pectoral fin rays. 



The following collections have been studied: 



U.S.N.M. No. 82432, San Antonio, Cuba, 1914. Henderson and Bartsch. 



No. 106516. Reef and beach St. Thomas, Smith Bay, April 25, 1937. W. L. 



Schmitt, Smithsonian-Hartford Expedition 1937, station 68. 

 No. 106619. Limon Bay, Fort Sherman (Toro Point), C. Z., February 20, 1937. 



J. B. Shropshire. 



RYPTICUS ARENATUS Cuvier 



Rypticus arenatus Cuvier, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des 

 poissons, vol. 3, p. 65, pi. 46, 1829 (Brazil) ; Le regne animal, vol. 2, p. 144, 

 1829. — Jordan and Eigenmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 8, p. 340, 1890. — 

 Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish and Fisher, for 1895, app. 5, 

 p. 379, 1896; U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 47, pt. 1, p. 1232, 1896.— Fowler, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1916, p. 402. — Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, 

 Rep. U. S. Comm. Fisher, for 1928, pt. 2. p. 316, 1930.— Fowler, Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 70, pt. 2, p. 779, fig. 343, 1936. 



Rhypticus arenatus GtJNTHER, Catalogue of fishes in the British Museum, vol. 1, 

 p. 173, 1859.— Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 53; 1863, 

 p. 163.— Steindachner, Sitzber. math.-nat. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 56, pt. 1, 

 p. 347 [41], 1867.— Capello, Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Acad. Sci. Lisboa, 

 vol. 3, p. 196, 1867. — GtJNTHER, Report on the shore fishes (in Zoology of the 

 voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, vol. 1, pt. 6), p. 6, 1880.— Bean and Dressel, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, p. 163, 1884.— Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 9, p. 581, 1887.— BoxiLENGER, Catalogue of fishes in the British Museum, 



