198 Miscellaneous. 



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

 des Poissons de la Faune de Cuba appartenant a la Famille Percidae, 

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

 diaguosis was as follows : — 



" Le genre Hifpoplectrodes a ete propose par Mr. Gill, Proc. Acad. 

 Phil. 1862, p. 236, pour le PI. nigro-ruhrum, 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 Huntii 

 of Hector of Xew 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 Htpoplectrodes. 



Hypoplectvodes, Gill, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Philad. 1862, p. 2.30 (with 

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

 p. 4.5,"1871 (defined). 



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

 (1890). 



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

 views, are four in number, viz. : — 



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



Hector. 

 South Australia, New Zealand, Chile. 



2. H. (itinidatus= Plectropoma annulatum, Giinther. 

 South Australia. 



3. H. nigroruber. 

 South Australia. 



4. ff.(?) armatus=Serraniis armatus, Castelnau. 

 Australia (Swan Pdver). 



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

 by Lord Walsingham to a genus of Pterophoroid Lepidopters. — 

 Proc. U.S. Kat. Mus. vol. xviii. no. 1082, pp. 567, 568. 



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



t Vol. i. pp. 806-309. 



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



