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specimens from St. Croix and Bermuda in the British Museum, where 
they are labeled Hamulon macrostoma. Inthe museums at Washington, 
Cambridge, and Bloomington are specimens from Havana and Bahia. 
40. HA:MULON SCHRANEI. 
Hemulon schranki Agassiz, Spix, Pisce. Brasil., 1829, 121, pl. 69 (Brazil); Evermann 
& Jenkins, Proc. U. 8S. N. M. 1891, 153 (Guaymas); Jordan, 1. ¢., 1889, 648 
(St. Lucia); Jordan, 1. ¢., 1890, 319 (Bahia). 
? Hamulon similis Castelnau, Anim. Nouy. ou Rares, 1855, 11? (Bahia). 
Hemulon caudimacula Steind., Ichth. Beitrage, 1, 15, 1875 (Acapulco, Rio Janeiro, 
Rio Grande do Sul, Maranhao; not of ae & Val.). 
Diabasis steindachneri Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U.S. F. C, 1881, 322 (Mazatlan, Pan- 
ama); Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U.S. F. i 1882, 107, 110 (Panama, Mazat- 
lan); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1882, 361, 372 (Cape San Lucas, 
Colima). 
Hemulon steindachneri, Jordan & Swain, 1. c., 299. 
Hemylon flaviguitatum Bean, Proc. U. 8. N. M. 1880, 96 (Colima; no description; 
not of Gill). 
Habitat: Pacific coast of tropical America; coast of Brazil, north to 
St. Lucia. 
Etymology: Named for Schrank, an early naturalist. 
A species of small size, generally common on the Pacific coast of 
tropical America. It also occurs in abundance on the southeast coast 
of Brazil, and a specimen before us was taken by the Albatross at St. 
Lucia. We have examined numerous specimens from Brazil in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoblogy (from Rio Janeiro, Rio Grand do Sul, 
Para, Maranhao, and Acapulco); on comparing these with Pacific coast 
examples we can find no difference; the Brazilian fish seems to be the 
original of the poorly figured Hemulon schranki of Agassiz; the Pacific 
coast form is H. dainatech neri. 
41. HAMULON MELANURUM. (Jeniguana.) A 
Perca marina cauda nigra (Black-tail), Catesby, Hist. Car., tab. 7, f. 2, 1743 (Bahamas). 
Perca melanura Linnieus, Syst. Nat., x, 292, 1758; x11, 486, 1766 (based on Catesby’s 
figure); Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1788, 1319. 
Bathystoma melanurum, Putnam, Bull. M. C. Z., 1863, 12 (name only). 
~ Hemulon melanurum, Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1871, 471 (New Providence, St. 
Martins, St. Croix); Jordan & Swain, 1. c., 300. 
Heamulon dorsale Poey, Memorias, 11, 179, 1860 (Cuba); Synopsis, 1868, 308; Enumer- 
atio, 1875, 44). 
Habitat: West Indies. 
Etymology: péias, black; odpd, tail. 
This species is rather common at Havana, where it is known as 
Jeniguana. It reaches a length of about a foot. There seems to be no 
doubt of its identity with the‘ black-tail” of Catesby, on which is based 
the Perca melanura of Linneus. Specimens are in the museum at Cam- 
bridge from Havana, St. Thomas, Sombrero, and Nassau. 
