Jordan and Ever mann. Pishes of North America. 1193 



1580g. HYPOPLECTRUS UNICOLOR ABERRANS (Poey). 

 Hypoplectnis alerrans, POEY, Synopsis, 291, 1868, Havana. 



1580h. HYPOPLECTRUS UNICOLOR ACCENSUS (Poey). 



Plectrnponiaiu-censHni, POKY, Memorias, i, 72, 1851, Havana. 

 Hi/poplectnis accensu*, POKY, Synopsis, 290, 1868. 



15801. HYPOPLECTRUS UNICOLOR AFFINIS (Poey). 



Plectropoma affine, POEY, Memorias, n, 427, 18G1, Havana. 

 POEY, Enumeratio, 24, 1875. 



1580J. HYPOPLECTRUS UNICOLOR CHLORURUS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Pleclroptmtd cMornrnm, CUVIER & VALENClENNF.s, Hist Nat. Poiss., n, 406, 1828, Martinique: 



GATHER. Cat., i, 1G7. 



Hypoplectrus chlorurus, POEV, Synopsis, 290, 1868. 

 Serranus chlorurus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 537, 1883. 



1580k. HYPOPLECTRUS UNICOLOR NIGRICANS (Poey). 



Plectropoma nigricans, POEY, Momorias, I, 71, 1851, Havana. 



Hypoplectrusnigricans, POEY, Synopsis, 290, 1868; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 918, 1883. 



15801. HYPOPLECTRUS UNICOLOR INDIGO (Poey). 

 (ANIL.) 



Plectropoma indigo, POEY. Memorias, t, 69, 1851, tab. 3, fig. 1, Havana; GfiNTHER, Cat., i, 166. 

 Hypoplectrus indigo POEY Synopsis, 290, 1868. 



1580m. HYPOPLECTRUS UNICOLOR BOVINUS (Poey). 



Plectropoinn bovinum, POEY, Memorias, i, 69, 1851, Havana; GUNTHER, Cat., i, 166. 

 Hypoplectrus bovinus, POEY, Synopsis. 290, 1868. 



1581. HYPOPLECTRUS GEMMA, Goode & Bean. 



Head 2 ; depth 2 ; eye 4 in head. B. VII ; D. X, 15 ; A. Ill, 7 ; C. 9 + 8 ; 

 P. 14 ; V. I, 5 j scales 9-70-32. Least height of the tail contained 3 times 

 in the length of the head. The scales small, weakly ctenoid, about 76 in 

 the lateral line, 9 above it, and 29 below (elsewhere stated as 9-70-32); 

 lateral line following very closely the contour of the dorsal profile 

 throughout its entire extent. Greatest length of head 3 in distance from 

 the tip of snout to end of middle caudal rays. Snout 3 in head : oper- 

 culum to end of flap equal to snout ; upper jaw extending to vertical 

 from anterior margin of orbit, its length equal to half that of head ; lower 

 jaw about the same length ; armature and squamation of the opercular 

 bones and dentition normal. Distance of dorsal fin from snout very 

 slightly less than greatest height of body ; length of dorsal base equal to 

 distance between its origin and base of the posterior ray of anal fin, the 

 fourth spine longest, its length equaling that of base of anal; anal fin 



