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data already given are based. Concerning another fish Dr. Longley wrote, 

 "Noted that M. microlepis has large power of change of shade." Then, concern- 

 ing 2 large fish, each about 20 inches long, "The markings are scarcely sharper 

 in adults than in young." 



South Atlantic and Gulf coast of the United States, chiefly Florida. S. F. H. 



Mycteroperca tigris (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



(Plate 8, figure 1) 



Serranus tigris Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. nat. poiss., vol. 9, 1833, p. 440 — Santo 



Domingo. 

 Serranus camelopardalis Poey, Memorias, vol. 2, i860, p. 132 — Havana. 

 Serranus felinus Poey, ibid., p. 134 — Havana. 

 Serranus rivulatus Poey, ibid., p. 135 — Havana. 

 Trisotropis reticulatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 17, 1865, p. 105 — 



Barbados. 



Twice I saw a specimen of this species and studied and photographed it in the 

 great reef patch at the northern end of Loggerhead bank. 



The fish was changeable in shade, but showed always the same pattern. Entire 

 side of head covered by netted light lines, surrounding darker spots of the aver- 

 age size of the pupil; nine light bars, narrower than the brown interspaces, cross- 

 ing dorsal surface between orbital region and posterior end of soft dorsal, becom- 

 ing lost about halfway down side in a ventrolateral system of mottling. 



West Indies to Florida and Bermuda. W. H. L. 



Liopropoma aberrans (Poey) 



Several specimens were taken south of Tortugas, between 40 and 60 fathoms. 



D. VIII,i4 1 / 4; A. 111,8%; P- 15; scales 3-48-15; gill rakers 3 and 2 rudiments 

 above, 12 and 2 rudiments below angle on first arch. Head, in a specimen 55 mm. 

 in standard length, 2.75; depth 3.66. Eye in head 5.0. Teeth in villiform bands in 

 both jaws, inner ones larger in fore part of upper, and outer ones in lower jaw; 

 all depressible; vomerine and palatine teeth present; pseudobranchiae well de- 

 veloped; lower jaw projecting; maxillary scaly, with a supplemental bone, reach- 

 ing somewhat past posterior margin of pupil; preopercle weakly serrate; opercle 

 ending in 3 points, the middle one terminating a distinct ridge; lateral line rising 

 sharply anteriorly and descending steeply immediately behind end of dorsal; 

 caudal slightly emarginate at the length of 70 mm. 



Ground color yellowish, faintly flushed with rose dorsally; center of each scale 

 with pale bluish spot; dorsal and caudal distinctly yellow; anal rather yellow; 

 dorsal and ventral margins and caudal angles pale; pectorals transparent; 

 ventrals white. W. H. L. 



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Six specimens, 40 to 120 mm. in length, in the collection apparently are of this 

 species. In some respects the published accounts do not agree with the specimens 

 in hand. The large pores which are said to be present on the head are not very 

 evident, and the preopercular margin is finely serrate instead of smooth as de- 



