4 /.'< vu ■'• of the Fiah of Cuba 



Tne pectorals have an orange border, not distinct in the young 

 ones. 'I'll' extent and intensity of the red color is proportioned to the 

 depth of the waters it frequents. The preopercle is rounded and finely 

 denticulate d. 



\\ attains a weight of 25 pounds. Is found, according to M. 



Valenciennes, at St. Domingo and St. Bartholomew. Popular 



name in Eavana, Bonaei cardenal. 



5 ibneider knew this species only through the text and figure 

 i I 1'arra ; and although the name of guttatus has the priority, it 

 cannot be preserved because at the time Valenciennes was writing 

 ther mother Serranus which Linnaeus, and also Bloch, had 

 named Perca guttata, which is now the Pet r<>m<t<>i>on guttatus, 

 same as Serranus coronatus, Val., of which the S. nigricuhis is 

 <mly a darker variety. There was also the Bodianus guttatus, 

 Bloch, from the Bast Indies, which is the Epinephelus argue, 

 Bl., Syst., and the CephalopAolis '//■(/us, Schneider, the same, ac- 

 cording to Dr. Gunther, as the Serranus myriaster, Val. There 



. besides, tin- Serranus guttatus, Val. {nee. Bl.), also from the 

 Bast Indies, which according to Gunther is the cyandstigmatoides 

 of Dr. Bleeker. 



Valenciennes gives the S. cardinalis, from Parra, without 

 having seen a specimen of it; and it is n<>t surprising, therefore, 

 that be afterwards should have made it the S. rvpestris, when he 



• ived it from St. Domingo. 



Triiofropii petrosua* 



Serranus petrotus, Post, Mem. ii.. 186; Report, ii.. 55. 



Ground color of the body a rather light-brownish violet, covered 

 with pretty close-set round spots of a reddish brown, of about the size 

 of the |>n|iil of the eye; besides which large quadrilateral spaces may 

 be indistinctly traced along the trunk. There is n<> red <>n the bodv or 

 tin-, which are of a dark brown, except the pectoral, which are blade 

 vs i 1 1 1 H broad, brighl orange border, distinctly marked, at least in the 

 specimens, tbeonlj ones that 1 could observe. The preopercle is 

 rounded. It reaches a «ei L 'iit <>f 25 pounds, I sent, at the request <»f 

 M. Al'.v- i/. :i specimen 720 nun long to the Museum of Comparative 

 Anatomy, at Cambridge, Mass. In Havana it is called Bonaei de 

 piedm. 



