49 

 MULLID^. 



HYPENEUS MACULATUS, {Block) Cuv. 

 Goat-fish. 



Pira metara, Makcgrave, Hist. &c. Brasil, 1648, 156, 181. 



Mullus maculatus, Bloch, Ichth. x, 1797, 79, tab. 348.— Schnkider, Bloch, Syst. Icbth. 



1801, 78. 

 Ujieneus maculatus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 1829, 478. — Storer, Syn. Fish. N. 



Am. 1846, 48.— POEY, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, i, 1853,223; ii, 1861,367.— Castel- 



NAU, Anim. Nouv. «&c. AmtSrique du Sud, Pois. 1855, -6. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. 



Brit. Mus. i, 1861, 408.— Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 471. 

 Mullhypeneus maculatus, Poey, Eep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 307. 



I did not secure a specimen, but was told tbat a fish of this descrip- 

 tion is common among the reefs. Godet, in his " History of Bermuda," 

 gives a description of color which is apparently taken from specimens 

 by him, which renders the identification sufQcieiitl ? certain. The spe- 

 cies is also recorded from Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique, and Eio de Ja- 

 neiro. 



HOLOCENTRUM SOGO, Bloch. 

 Squirrel. 



Jaquaraca, Marcgrave, Hist. &c. Brasil, 1648, 147. 



Perca marina rubra, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, ii,, 



1743, 2., tab. ii, f. 2. 

 Bodianus pentacanthus, Bloch, Ichth. vii, 1797, 29, tab. ccxxxv (a badly-distorted copy 



of Marcgrave's figure). 

 Holocentrus sogo, Bloch, op. cit. 46, tab. ccxxxii. 

 Molocentnim sogfio. Gill, Cat.'Fish. E. Coast N. Am. 41, 186; and in Baird's Rep. on Sea 



Fisheries of South. New England, 1873, 804. 

 Holocentrus rubellus laminis hranchiostegis serratis etc., Brown, Hist. &c. Jamaica, 1799,. 



447. 

 Sogo holocentrus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. v. 1803, 555. 

 Bodianus jaguar, LACi^piiDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. &c. iv, 1803, 286. 

 Sciceena rubra, Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 82 (not Forskal). 

 Eolocentrum longipinne, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 1829, 181. — Storee, Syiu 



Fish. N. Am. 1846, 46.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. i, 1861, 28.— Cope, 



Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 465. 



Common; its bright color and nervous darting motions rendering it 



one of the most conspicuous denizens of the rock-pools. It is found 

 4 F 



