EEVIEW OF THE SERRANID^. 
355 
Serranus maeiilatus var. impetiginosus Peters, Berl. Monatsber., 1865, 110. 
Epinephelus impetiqinosiis Poey, Repertorio, I, 201; Poey, Syn. Pise. Cubens., 286, 1868 (Cuba); Jordan 
& Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 973. 
Serranus capreolus Poey, Memorias Cuba, II, 1860, 145 (Cuba) ; Vaillant & Bocourt, Mission Scientifique 
an Mexique, 87 (Gulf of Mexico; Brazil; Ascension). 
Epinephelus capreolus Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 539 (specimen from Key West described). 
Serranus varius Bocourt, Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, 1868, 222 (Gulf of Mexico). 
Habitat. — West Indian fauna, Florida Keys to Brazil; Ascension and St. Helena 
Islands. 
Etymology. — Adscensionis^ from Ascension Island, where the species was first 
taken. 
Specimens of this common species from Bahia are in the museum at Cambridge 
and in the U. S. National Museum. 
23. EPINEPHELUS CATUS. 
(Cabrilla; Red Hind.) 
Cugupuguacu Brazil, the Hind, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carol., etc., 1743, tab. 14 (Bahamas). 
Ca6ri/Za Parra, Dif. Piezas, Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787 (Havana), 
Perea guttata Linuajus, Syst. Nat., X, 1758, 292 (in part, not type ; after Maregrave, Sloane, Willoughby, 
Ray, and Catesby, the figure of Catesby only belonging to this species). 
Epinephelus guttatus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1876, 58 (Bermudas); Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. 
Fish. N. A. 1883, 919, 973 (specimens examined from Florida Keys) ; Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus;, 1880, 99 (Bermuda; Florida). 
Serranus apua Cuv. & Val., II, 1828, 287 (Brazil; citing as synonym Piratiapia of Maregrave, and of 
authors; not Bodianus apua Bloch, Gunther, I, 140, 1859 (Jamaica): Steindachner, Ich. Notiz., 
VI, 43, 1867 (Barbadoes; Surinam); Gunther, Shore Fishes, Challenger Exp. 1880, 6 (St. 
Thomas). 
Epinephelus apua Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish N. A., 973 (name only); Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus. 1884, 389 (Havana). 
Lutjanus lunulatus (bis) Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1801, 329 (dfter Cabrilla Parra; not 
Lutjanus lunulatus Bloch & Schneider). 
Serranus lunulatus Cuv. & Val., II, 1828, 379 (after Parra); Steindachner, “Ichthyol. Mittheil., IX, 
1866, 15”; Poey, Repertorio, I, 200. 
Epinephelus lunulatus Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cubens., 1868, 286; Poey, Enum. Pise. Cub., 1875, 16 (Ha- 
vana); Cope, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., 1871, 465 (St. Martin’s; St. Kitt’s; New Providence). 
Serranus catus Cuv, & Val., II, 373, 1828 (Martinique) ; Guichenot, Ramon de la Sagra, Cuba, II, 13, 
1850. 
Serranus maculatus var. calus Peters, Berliner Monatsber., 1865, 110 (Martinique; Barbadoes, Puerto 
Cabello). 
Serranus arara Cuv. & VaL, II, 1828, 377 (Havana; erroneously identified with Bonaci arard Parra) ; 
Poey, Repertorio, I, 200. 
Serranus maculatus Gunther, I, 1859, 130 (West Indies; not Perea maculata Bloch); Vaillant & Bo- 
court, Mission Scientifique au Mexique, IV, 1875, 83 (Jamaica). 
Epinephelus cubanus Poey, Repert. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, I, 1867, 202 (Cuba) ; Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub., 1868, 
287; Poey, Enumeratio Pise. Cub., 1875, 17. 
Serranus maculatus var. cit6a»Ms Peters, Berliner Monatsber., 1865, 110 (Cuba), 
Habitat. — West Indies; Florida Keys; Bermudas; Brazil. 
Etymology. — Low Latin, catus., a cat; from Latin catus, sly, wary. 
We here reject the name apua formerly used by us for this species, the original 
Bodianus apua of Bloch being in our opinion based on the red variety of Mycteroperca 
venenosa. The name guttatus L. is based chiefly on the Cugupuguacu of Maregrave, 
with which Catesby had erroneously identified his “Hind,” which is the present spe- 
