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f. var. gummigutta. 
Plectropoma gummigutta Poey, Memor. Cuba, I, 70, 1851 (Havana) ; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., I, 
166, 1859 (copied). 
Hgpoplectrus gummigutta Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cubens., 290, 1868 (Havana) ; Poey, Ennmeratio, 23, 187.5 
(Havana). 
g. var. aberrans. 
Hgpoplectrus aberrans Poey, Synop. Pise. Cubens., 291, 1868 (Havana); Poey, Enumeratio, 24, 1875 
(Havana). 
h. var. accensus. 
Plectropoma accensum Poey, Memor. Cuba, I, 72, 1851 (Havana). 
Hgpoplectrus accensus Poey, Synopsis Pise., Cubens., 290, 1868 (Havana); Poey, Enumeratio, 24, 1875. 
(Havana). 
i. var. affinis. 
Plectropoma affine Poey, Memor. Cuba, II, 427, 1860 (Havana). 
Hgpoplectrus affinis Poey, Enumeratio, 24, 1875 (Havana). 
j. var. chlorurus. 
Plectropoma chlorurum Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 406, 1828 (Martinique) ; Storer, Synopsis Fish. 
N. Am., 283, 1846 (copied) ; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., I, 167, 1859 (Martinique); Cope, 
Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., Phil., XIV, 466, 1871 (St. Croix); Vaillant & Bocourt, Miss. Sci. Mex., IV, 
104, 1874, pi. V, f. 2. 
Hgpoplectrus chlorurus Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cubens., 290, 1868 (Havana). 
Serranus chlorurus Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. N. Am., 537, 1883, 
1. var. nigricans. 
Plectropoma nigricans Poey, Memor. Cuba, I, 71, 1851 (Havana). 
Hgpoplectrus nigricans Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cubens., 290, 1868 (Havana); Poey, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., 
35, 1871 (Cuba); Poey, Enumeratio, 24, 1875 (name only); Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. N. 
Am., 918, 1883; Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 238, 1882 (Gulf Mexico); Jordan, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 149, 1884 (Florida Keys); Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Am., 83, 1885. 
m. var. indigo. 
(Anil.) 
Plectropoma indigo Poey, Memor. Cuba, I, 69, 1851, tab. 3, fig. 1 (Havana); Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 
Mus., I, 166, 1859 (copied). 
Hypoplectrus indigo Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cub, 290, 1868 (Havana) ; Poey, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., 35, 
1871 (Cuba); Poey, Enumeratio, 23, 1875 (name only); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 39 
(Havana). 
n. var. hovinus. 
Plectropoma bovinum Poey, Memor. Cuba, I, 69, 1851 (Havana); Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 1, 166 
(copied). 
Hypoplectrus hovinus Poey, Synopsis Pise. Cubens., 290, 1868 (Havana); Poey, Enumeratio, 23, 1875, 
(Havana). 
Habitat . — West Indian fauna. 
Etymology. — Puella, a little girl. 
We have examined large numbers of specimensof this type in the museum at Cam- 
bridge, and elsewhere. The best series seen is that sent by Poey to the museum from 
Havana. So far as we can discover, the various nominal species of this type are ab- 
solutely identical in all respects except in color. Many of them — e. g., xjnella., indigo, 
chlorurus — seem at first sight to be certainly difierent. Nevertheless eacli of these 
forms is subject to wide variations, ipid from the material which we have seen we can 
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