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the Canaries, Jamaica, and Cuba. A single specimen was taken in the 

 spring of 1873, at Staten Island, New York Harbor, by Mr. 0. L. Copley, 

 and sent by him to the Smithsonian Institution. 



Color. — Golden-brown, with a longitudinal stripe of gold along the 

 center of each row of scales, a silvery streak along the preorbital. 



PRISTIPOMATIILE. 



H^MYLUM CAPEUNA, (Lichtemtein) Goode. 

 White Grunt. 



Capeuna BrasUiensibus, Marcgrave, Hist. &c. Brasil, i, 1648, 155, f. 163. 



Grammistes trivittata, Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 188 (on Marcgrave's figure) 



Serranus capeuna, Lichtenstein, Abhandl. Berl. Akad. 1820-1, 288 (on Marcgrave's fig- 

 ure). 



Hcenudon quadriUneatum, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. v, 1830,288, pi. cxx. — Stoker, 

 Syn. Fish. N. Am. 1846, 75.— Gunther, Cat, Fish. Brit. Mus. i, 1861, 316.— 

 Poey, Rep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 319. — Gill, in Baird's Rep. Sea Fisheries of 

 S. New Euglaud, 1873, 806. 



Hwmulum quadriUneatum, Cope, Trails. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 471. 



Hcrmulon quinquelineatum, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1861,419; Rep. Fis.-Nat. 

 Cuba, i, 1867, 310 ; ii, 1868, 162. 



Common, occurring in schools. My specimens measure four inches. 

 Cuvier's description of the color is excellent ; but Gunther, in quoting it, 

 fails to mention, either in generic or specific diagnoses, the brilliant red 

 of the lips and mouth, which Cuvier thought of sufficient importance to 

 found upon it his generic name Scemulon. I have made use of the 

 specific name capeuna, because it seems to have priority over that 

 usually accepted. The name trivittata can scarcely stand, since it is not 

 only inapplicable, but sure to mislead, as is evident from the two other 

 names which have been given to the species, viz, quadriUneatum and 

 quinquelineatum. 



The species is recorded from Brazil, San Domingo, and Cuba. 



H^EMYLUM CHBYSOPTERUM, (Linne) Cuvier. 

 Margate-fish. 



Perca marina gihbosa cinerea (Margate-fish), Catesby, Hist. Carolina, Florida, and 



Bahamas, ii, 1743, 2, pi. ii, f. 1. 

 Perca chrysoptera, Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 1766, 485. — Gmelin, Linne", Syst. Nat. 1, 



1788, 1314. 

 Luljanus chrysopterus, LacepJide, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 1803, 186, 226. 



