2856 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



these fins otherwise brownish olive, with a subterminal band of black ; 

 pectorals pale, darker in middle. Allied to Mycteroperca calliura, differ- 

 ing in having fewer gill rakers, more slender body, smaller scales, and a 

 less lunate caudal. Jamaica; only 1 specimen, 6 inches long, known. 

 (Named for Timothy Hopkins.) 



Mycteroperca hopkinsi, JORDAN & RUTTER, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1897, 105, Jamaica. 

 (Type, No. 5073, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. J. S. Roberts.) 



Page 1187. Insert: 



1676(a). MYCTEBOPEBCA BOULENGERI, Jordan & Starks. 



Head2| in length; depth 2^. D. XI, 14 or 15; A. Ill, 9 or 10; scales 

 about 90, 20 above and 42 below; snout 3| in head; maxillary 2; eye 5|; 

 pectoral If; ventral If; longest anal ray If; caudal If; longest dorsal 

 spine 2|; gill rakers short, about 6 + 17, the longest about % eye; longest 

 dorsal ray 2 in head. Body short and deep, compressed ; head moderate, 

 compressed, its profile not steep, nearly straight, a depression before eye. 

 The supraoccipital and temporal crests are high, the supraoccipital crest 

 extending to the posterior margin of orbit; the temporal crests are paral- 

 lel to each other, and extending to pupil; iuterorbital space concave. 

 Upper canines moderate, the lower quite small. Nostrils small, well sep- 

 arated, the anterior slightly larger. Lower jaw very strongly projecting; 

 maxillary reaching opposite posterior edge of pupil. Preopercle slightly 

 notched, the angle slightly salient, with enlarged teeth. Dorsal not deeply 

 notched, the fourth spine not much elevated ; second dorsal high, not long, 

 its angle not rounded ; caudal scarcely lunate, the upper lobe long, the 

 lower truncate; anal very high, strongly elevated, its posterior border 

 incised, the anterior rounded; pectoral and ventral moderate. Scales 

 smoothish, not very small. Color olive gray, covered everywhere with 

 oblong irregular markings of black, between which the ground color 

 forms rivulations; gray lines radiating from the eye ; a black blotch below 

 maxillary; pectoral olive yellow; other fins blackish, clouded with pale; 

 first dorsal with faint small black spots. Mazatlan, Mexico. (Named for 

 George Albert Bouleuger, ichthyologist of the British Museum, in recog- 

 nition of his epoch marking work on the Percoid fishes.) 



Mycteroperca boulengeri, JORDAN & STARKS, Fishes Sinaloa, 445, pi. 38, 1895, Mazatlan, 

 Sinaloa, Mexico. (Type, No. 1621, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. Hopkins Exped. to 

 Sinaloa ) 



Page 1235. The original type of Lobotes is surinamensis, not erate. 



Lobotes erate is a species distinct from L. surinamensis, inhabiting the 

 coasts of India and China. Lobotes farkhari and L. incurvus are probably 

 identical with L. erate, and all 3 should be erased from the synonymy of 

 L. surinamensis. 



Page 1236. After Lobotes surinamensis add: 



The Lobotes of the Pacific coast of Central America is distinguished 

 from the other known species, L. siirinamensis and L. erate, by the small 



