104 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1897. 



SERRANIDJE. 



69. Petrometopon cruentatus (Lacepede). Rock Hind; Mahiner. 



Sporus cruentatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Pois., IV, 157, pi. 4, fig. 1, 1803 

 (Martinique). 



Petrometopon cruentatus, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North America, 

 1141. 



Two specimens. One has dark brown reticulations on head en- 

 closing hexagonal pale brown areas, and the spots on each side of 

 the spinous dorsal are black, those on one side of the soft dorsal are 

 silvery white, on the other black. In the other smaller Bpecimen 

 the reticulations of the head are pale bluish, and sharply define the 

 hexagonal pale brown areas ; reticulations are also more or less dis- 

 tinct on the soft rays of fins ; the spots on each side of dorsal are all 

 silvery white, except that two are partly black. Edges of all fins 

 dark. The larger and darker specimen has a proportionately longer 

 maxillary, the maxillary in two specimens being If and 2 in head. 



70. Bodianus fulvus (Linnaeus). Lemon Yellow Butter Fish. 



Labrus fulvus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 287, 1758 (Bahamas). 

 Bodianus fulvus, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North America, 1,144. 



Lemon yellow, becoming orange on upper part of side and base of 

 dorsal, two round black spots on upper side of caudal, a few scatter- 

 ing small black spots on head and anterior side of body, none on end 

 of lower jaw. 



70a. Bodianus fulvus ruber (Bloch &, Schneider). Rock Hind. 



Gymnocephalits ruber Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 346, pi 67, 1801. 

 Bodianus fulvus ruber, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North America, 1,145. 



70b. Bodianus fulvus punctatus (Linnasus). 



Perca punctata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 291, 1758 (Bahamas). 

 Bodianus fulvus punctatus, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North America, 

 1,146. 



71. Epinephelus adscensionis (Qsbeck). Rock Hind. 



Trachinus adscensionis Osbeck, Iter Chin., etc., 1757 (Ascension Island). 

 Epinephelus adscensionis,JordsLn&~E\ermann,Fishes of North America, 1,152. 



72. Epinephelus striatus (Bloch). Red Grouper; Rock Fish. 



Ant/iias striatus Bloch, Ichthyologia, IX, 109, pi. 324, 1792 (Martinique). 

 Epinephelus striatus, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North America, 1,157. 



The canines are very small ; edge of preopercle with very minute 

 serrse. The vertical cross-bars nearly or quite obsolete on specimens 

 17 in. long. 



73. Epinephelus maculosus (Cuvier A Valenciennea). Rock Hind. 



Serranus maculosus Cuvier & Valenciennes, II, 332, 1828. 



Epinephelus maculosus, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes of North America, 1,158. 



