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aaa. Scales small, about 80 in the lateral line. 
k. [Caudal moderately emarginated. Colpr safifron-yellow, orange on caudal, anal, 
and ventrals ; a narrow blue band from eye across cheek and some small blue 
spots on side of muzzle ; a narrow blue line along upper edge of preoper- 
cle ; two faint vertical lines on opercle ; back brownish anteriorly ; jaws, 
pectoral, and dorsal fins saffron-yellow. Eight teeth on lower margin of 
preopercle. Depth 2-} in length. Scales, 12-81-32 [( Cope). Crocotus, 65. 
kk. [Caudal forked. Color purple with lighter cloudings ; fins colorless, the exter- 
nal caudal ray darker; caudal deeply lunate, the external rays much 
prolonged, especially those of the upper lobe, which are twice as long 
as the middle rays. Depth 2^^ in length. Scales 9-76-29.] {Goode & 
Bean) Gemma, 66. 
63. HYPOPLECTRUS LAMPRURUS. 
Serranus lamp'rur us Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 322, 1881 (Panama). 
Hypoplectrus lamprurus Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 376, 1885 (Panama). 
Habitat . — Pauaiua fauna. 
Etymology. — ylapTrpd?, bright; o’upd, tail. 
This species is known only from a single specimen, taken by Professor Gilbert at 
Panama. 
It is well distinguished from the Atlantic species by the much smaller scales. The 
single type has almost exactly the coloration of the form called Hypoplectriis chlorurus. 
We can only guess as to the color variations which it may undergo. 
64. HYPOPLECTRUS PUELLA. 
(Vaca.) 
a. var. puella. 
Plectropoma puella Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 405, plate 37, 1828 (Martinique) ; Storer, Synopsis 
Fish. N. Am., 282, 1846 (copied) ; Poey, Memor. Cuba, I, 62, 1851 (Havana) ; Gunther, Cat. Fish. 
Brit. Mus., 1,165, 1859 (Jamaica). 
Bypoplectrus puella Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cubens., 290, 1868 (Havana); Poey, Enumeratio, 23, 1875, 
(Cuba). 
6. var. vitulinus. 
Plectropoma vitulinum Poey, Memor. Cuba, I, 68, 1851 (Havana). 
Hypoplectrus vitulinus Poey, Enumeratio, 23, 1875 (Havana). 
c. var. pinnivarius. 
Hypoplectrus pinnivarius Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cubens., 291, 1868 (Havana) ; Poey, Enumeratio, 24, 1875 
(Havana). 
d. var. maculiferns. 
Hypoplectrus macidiferus Poey, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., X, 78, tab. 1, X, 2, 1871 (Havana); Poey, 
Enumeratio, 24, 1875 (Havana). 
e. var. guttavarius. 
Plectropoma guttavarium Poey, Memor. Cuba, I, 70, 1851 (Havana) ; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., I, 
166, 1859 (copied) ; Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., Phil., XIY, 466, 1871 (St. Croix). 
Hypoplectrus guttavarius Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cubens., 291, 1868 (Havana); Poey, Enumeratio, 24, 
1875 (Havana). 
Plectropoma melanhorina Guichenot, “Poiss., in Eamon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 18, pi. 1, fig. 1 ” (about 
1855.) 
