Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1583 



1988.-HARPE RUFA (Linnaeus) . 



(LADY- FISH; SPANISH LADY-FISH; SPANISH HOGFISH ; PUDIANO ; PERRO COLORADO.) 



Head 3; depth nearly 3. D. XII, 9; A. Ill, 11 or 12; scales 5-32-13; 

 snout 3 iu head. Head longer than high ; snout pointed ; preopercle den- 

 ticulate; tins a little less produced than in H. diplotamia. General color 

 violet red above and anteriorly, yellow or orange behind and below; 

 lower part of sides and posterior part of body yellowish orange; upper 

 part of head and body (sis far back as a line joining base of pectoral and 

 soft dorsal) violet red; middle of caudal, bases of pectoral and ventrals, 

 and most of anal, violaceous. Length 2 feet. A handsomely colored fish, 

 generally common in the West Indies, about islands and reefs; north to 

 Key West, Bermuda and St. Paul Rocks; south to Rio Janeiro; our speci- 

 mens are from Havana, (nifus, yellowish red.) 



Pudiano vermelho, MARCGRAVE, Hist. Bras., 145, 146, 1648, Brazil; on a drawing by Prince 



MAURICE of Nassau. 



Turdus flavus (the Hogfish), CATESBY, Nat. Hist. Carolina, n, pi. 2, fig. 1, 1743, Bahamas. 

 Labrus rufux, LIXNJEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 284, 1758, and Ed. xn, 475, 1766; after CATESBY; 



GOODE & BEAN, Proc. II. S. Nat. Mns. 1885, 200 (note on Linnseau specimen.) 

 Perro Colorado, PARRA, Descr. Dif. Pi<>/. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 3, lain. 3, tig. 1, 1787, Havana. 

 Bodianus bodianus, BLOCK, Ichtli., vn, 24, pi. 223, 1790, Brazil; from a drawing by Prince 



MAURICE, the same used by MAUOIRAVE. 



Liitjun us verres, BLOCK, Tcbthyol., pi. 255, 1791, locality uncertain. 



Sparus falcatus, BLOCH, Ichtbyol., pi. 258, 1791; after a drawing by PLUMIER, made at 



Martinique. 



Labrus semiruber, LAOKPKDE, I. c., in, 428, 1802, Rio Janeiro; from notes by COMMERSON. 

 liodianus blochii, LACEpKDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 279, 290, 1803; after Bodianus bodianus, 



BLOCK. 



Harpe cwndeo-aureus, LACEPEDE, I. c., 426, 427, pi. 8, fig. 2, 1803, Martinique; from the draw- 

 ing of PLUMIER, used by BLOCK. 



Cossyphus bodianus. CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xm, 103, 1839. 

 Cossyphus verres, CASTELNAU, Anim. Nouv. ou Rares Amerique du Sud, Ichth., 27, 1855. 

 Cossyphus rufus, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 108, 1862; GiJNTHER, Shore-Fishes, Challenger, 14, 1880. 

 .Harpe rw/a, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 222; GOODE, Fishes Bermudas, 37, 1876; 



JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 601, 1883; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 629, 1890. 

 Bodianus rufus, POEY, Repertorio, n, 331, 1867; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 148; 



JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 45. 



1989. HARPE ECLANCHERI (Valenciennes). 



HeadSi; depths. D. XII, 10; A. HI, 12; scales 32. Snout pointed with 

 the upper profile slightly concave; head longer than high; dorsal and 

 anal nns produced; caudal emarginate. General color vermilion, with 2 

 large, irregular, black blotches on the back and dorsal fin, the anterior on 

 the first 6 dorsal spines, the posterior extending over the whole soft dorsal 

 and over a portion of the back of the tail. (Valenciennes). This species 

 is known from Valenciennes's description and figure only. It much 

 resembles Harpe rufa, apparently differing only in color. Galapagos 

 Islands. (Named for M. Eclancher.) 



Cossyphus eclancheri, VALENCIENNES, Voy. V6nus, Zool., 340, Poiss., pi. 8, fig. 2, plates, 1846; 



text, 1855, Galapagos Islands; GiJNTHER, Cat., IV, 108, 1862. 

 Harpe eclancheri, JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 630, 1890. 



