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 MULLKME. 



HYPENEUS MACULATUS, (Block) Guv. 

 Goat-fish. 



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



2Iullus maculatus, Bloch, Ichtb. x, 1797, 79, tab. 348.— Schneider, Blocb, Syst. Icbtb. 



1801, 78. 

 Upeneus maculatus, Cov. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 1829, 478.— Stoker, Syn. Fisb. N. 



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

 • nau, Anim. Nouv. &c. Amerique du Sud, Pois. 1855, 6. — Gunther, Cat. Fisb. 



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

 Jjfullhypeneus maculatus, Poey, Rep. 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 sufficient]? certain. The spe- 

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

 neiro. 



BERYCIim 



HOLOCENTRUM SOGO, Bloch. 

 Squirrel. 



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



Perca marina rubra, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, Florida, and tbe Babama Islands, ii, 



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

 Bodianus pentacanthus, Bloch, Icbtb. vii, 1797, 29, tab. ccxxxv (a badly-distorted coiiy 



of Marcgrave's figure). 

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

 Holocentrum sogho, Gill, Cat.'Fisb. E. Coast N. Am. 41, 186; and in Baird's Rep. on Sea 



Fisheries of Soutb. New England, 1873, 804. 

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



447. 

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

 Bodianus jaguar, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. &c. iv, 1803, 286. 

 Sciceena rubra, Schneider, Blocb, Syst. Icbtb. 1801, 82 (not Forsk&l). 

 Holocentrum longipinne, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. iii, 1829, 181.— Storer, Syn. 



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



Trans. Am. Pbil. 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 

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