1146 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Gymnocephalus ruler, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 346, pi. 67, 1801, on Carauna of MARq- 



GRAVE; not Epinephelus ruber, BLOCH. 

 Serranus ouatalibi, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n, 381, 1828, Havana; GONTHER, 



Cat. i, 1859, 120; POEY, Repertorio, i, 202, 1867. 



Serranus carauna, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n, 384, 1828, Brazil. 

 Enneacentrns fulvus outalibi, JORDAN & SWAIN, I. c., 402. 

 Bodianus fulvus ruber, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 379. 



Represented along the shores from Southern Florida to the West Indies 

 by the brown form or variety 



1541b. BODIANUS FTJLYUS PUNCTATUS (Linnams). 

 (NIGGER-FISH; NEGRO-FISH; BLACK GuA-rivEHE.) 



Color in life, blackish olive ; spots everywhere on sides and head, dark 

 blue with light-blue centers ; dorsal fin dusky olive, edged with darker, a 

 few spots on its base; the soft dorsal margined with whitish. Caudal 

 dusky olive ; anal and ventrals violaceous black ; pectorals olivaceous ; 

 the spots in spirits become brown, with gray centers. West Indies, etc.; 

 every where common, (punctatus, dotted.) 



Perca marina puncliculata (the Negro-fish), CATESBY, Hist. Carolina, etc., pi. 7, 1843, Bahamas. 



Perca punctata, LINN^US, Syst. Nat., x, 1758, 291, Bahamas; based on CATESBY. 



Pcrca punclulata, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., 1315, 1788, Bahamas; after CATESBY. 



Enneacentrus punctatus, POEY, Synopsis, 288, 1868. 



Bodianus punctatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 919, 1883. 



Bodianus fulvus punctatus, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 380. 



Epinephelus punctatus, BOULENGER, Cat., i, 184. 



Subgenus MENEPHORUS, Poey. 

 1542. BODIAXUS DUBITJS (Poey). 



Head 3 ; depth 2f ; eye moderate, 4 in head, as long as snout. D. IX, 

 11+ (the fin having been injured in youth) ; A. Ill, 9; scales 96. Body 

 rather deep and compressed, formed much as in Bodianus fulvus', head 

 anteriorly pointed, the profile forming a slight, even curve. Mouth 

 small; maxillary extending to posterior edge of pupil, 2 in head ; lower 

 jaw much projecting; teeth moderate, the anterior canines in both jaws 

 rather strong. Interorbital space narrow. Preopercle finely serrate, its 

 outline evenly convex. Gill rakers slender and long, x-f-20. Scales 

 moderate, strongly ctenoid. Caudal fin lunate, its angles pointed, the 

 inner rays 21 in head, the outer If. Dorsal spines low, stiff, the longest 

 3 in head ; outline of the fin not notched; anal fin high and rounded, its 

 longest rays 2 in head; second anal spine stronger than third, but 

 scarcely longer, 3i in head ; pectoral long, reaching past tips of ventrals, 

 1^ in head. Color much as in Bodianus fulvus ruber, bright red ; head, 

 back, and sides covered with blue points, which are edged with black- 

 ish ; dorsal edged with dusky ; caudal tips black above and below; max- 

 illary with a row of dark spots ; some dark spots about eye. Length 9 

 inches. Cuba; 3 specimens known; the one above described in the 

 Museum at Cambridge, probably sent by Poey. A well-marked species, 



