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SERRANIDAE. 



Acanthistius cinctus (Gunther). 



BouLENGER, Cat. 1895, 1, p. 142, pi. 1. 



Plectropoma cinclum, Gunther, Cat. 1859, 1, p. 162, pi. 13, fig. A. 



One specimen 5x1 inches long from Easter Island, shore. 



Trachypoma macracanthum Gunther. 

 Cat. 1859, 1, p. 167. Boulenger, Cat. 1895, 1, p. 146, pi. 2. 



Two specimens, No. 3173, M. C. Z. 2965, 7| inches long and No. 3174, 8? 

 inches long from Cook Bay, Easter Island. 



No. 3173 has head 2.31 in length without caudal; depth 2.55; eye 3.6 

 in head; snout 4.8; 5th dorsal spine longest, 2.32 in head; 2nd anal spine longest, 

 strong, and stout, 2.25 in head; dorsal XII, 14; anal III, 6. 



Many of the scales are ciliated but only a few are ciliated in No. 3174, the 

 latter specimen agrees in other particulars with No. 3173. 



No. 3173, was in life, brilliant orange, splotched with lighter shades; dark 

 spots in centre of margin of soft dorsal; small white spots over body; branchio- 

 stegal membranes with brassy shades, the extended central margin of caudal 

 brown, rest of margin darker. 



Petrometopon panamensis (Stbindachner). 



Jordan & Evebmann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 1141. 



Serraniis paimmensis Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1875, 72, p. 551 (Beitrage, 4, p. 1), 

 taf. 1, fig. 1. 



Three specimens from Panama, No. 3127, 9g, 3146, M. C. Z. 29681, 9|, 

 3147, M. C. Z. 29659, 7j inches long. 



Three specimens from Acapulco, No. 3332, IO5, 3333, 9|, 3339, M. C. Z. 

 29633, IO3 inches long. 



Three specimens 4| to 6| inches long from Toboguilla Island, from coral 

 in two fathoms of water. M. C. Z. 29574 (1 specimen). 



Epinephelus analogus Gill. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1863, p. 163. Gilbert & Stabks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 96. 



Two specimens, Nos. 3114 and 3143, M. C. Z. 29649, 12^ and 91 inches long 

 from Panama. 



The round dark spots are not confined to the cross-bands, as described by 

 Gilbert and Starks, there being a single cross-series on each interspace. Our 

 specimens show distinctly only four cross-bands. 



