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90 Holbrook’s Ichthyology of South Carolina. 
tus, could have been imagined by the artist, it is difficult to conjec- 
ture. With these remarks, however, special criticism may end, 
for although some of the other figures might be much improved, 
most are tolerably accurate. __ eo 
With regard to the nomenclature of the species, little need be 
said. The names which will probably be for the most part 
adopted are given below; those spvcially interested in the sub- 
ject are referred to the discussions in the Proceedings of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, & . Hol- 
brook has been frequently unfortunate in the application to his 
fishes of former names, especially in the cases of the synonymy 
of his Caranx hippos and Homoprion xanthurus. The Scomber 
hippos L., identified with the first, belongs to a different genus, 
name instead of rubricauda. The Gasterosteus Carolinus was 28 — | 
evidently intended for Holbrook’s Bothrolaemus pompanus, no 
tter 
As Dr. Holbrook has not uniformly adopted a systematic at 
* Labrus auritus Linn. Syst, Nat., ed. xii, vol. i, p. 475. ae eS 
* See Proc, Acad. Nat. Psa Philad., 1862, p. 439. We e 
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