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established in its specific relations to warrant generalizations; 13 species, 

 or 23 per cent., occur in the Eastern Atlantic ; 3 of these have not been 

 recorded west of the Bermudas, and I prefer for the present to consider 

 them as wanderers from the Mediterranean fauna. The relations, fau- 

 nally, of others, such as Batistes capriscus and Pimelepterus Boscii, are 

 somewhat problematical. 



Four species of marine fishes and one inhabiting brackish water are \ 

 known to be peculiar to the group. 



Species common to the Bermudas and West Indies. 



Ostracium triquetrum. 

 Pseudoscarus superbus. 

 Pseudoscarus coeruleus. 

 Ghcerojulis radiatus. 

 Lachnolaemus falcatus. 

 Eucinostomus Lefroyi. 

 Acanthurus coeruleus. 

 Sarothrodus bimaculatus. 

 Calamus megacephalus. 

 Calamus orbitarius. 

 Lutjanus caxis. 

 Mesoprion aya. 

 Trisotropis guttatus. 



Epinephelus striatus. 

 Epinephelus guttatus. 

 Hypoplectrus puella. 

 Mugil liza. 



Auostoma coloratum. 

 Hemirhamphus Pleii. 

 Exoccetus exiliens. 

 Megalops thrissoides. 

 Sardinella anchovia. 

 Harengula macrophthalma. 

 Echidna catenata. 

 Zonichthys fasciatus (South Caro- 

 lina). 



Common to the Bermudas, West Indies, and Eastern Atlantic. 



Chilomycterus reticulatus (Saint Helena). 



Chilichthys Spengleri (Madeira, Cape Verdes, and Western Africa). 



Ostracium quadricorne (Saint Helena, Western Africa, Cape of Good 



Hope). 

 Sphyraena picuda (river Niger). 



Common to the Bermudas, Brazil, Cape Verdes, and Ascension Island. 



Salarias textilis. 

 Common to the Bermudas, West Indies, and Northern Brazil. 

 Mai the vespertilio. Pareques punctatus. 



Scarus radians. Hsemylum capeuna. 



Eucinostomus gula. Hsemylum chrysopterum. 



Hypeneus maculatus (Eio de Janei- Trisotropis undulosus. 

 ro). Hemirhamphus Pleii. 



Holocentrum sogo. 



