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base of the tail at the end of the soft dorsal ; extremity of the 

 caudal black, with a white fringe. In some specimens, when 

 fresh, there are faint traces of blue spots ; body, elongate ; its 

 height about three times in the total length, without the caudal ; 

 head contained twice and a half in the same ; canine teeth, very 

 strong ; preopercle, very finely serrated behind ; the central 

 spine of the opercle strong ; body scales very small ; dorsal 

 formed of eleven spines — the two first lower than the third, the 

 others becoming rather shorter as they extend backwards ; the 

 soft part rather higher than the spines, of fourteen rays ; caudal 

 rounded ; anal with three spines, of which the first is shorter, 

 and the others almost equal. 



This sort attains two feet in length, and is esteemed for the 



table, 



Serranus undulato-striatus. 



Serranus undulato-striatus, Peters, Monatsber, Ak. Wiss. Berlin 



1866, p. 518. 



Body compressed, high, with the head rather pointed ; the 

 greatest height of the body contained twice and a half in the 

 total length without the caudal fin ; head contained less than 

 twice and a half in the same ; body covered with moderate 

 scales ; those on the cheeks and opercles much smaller ; the 

 praeopercle finely denticulated on its posterior edge, with two or 

 three much larger spines at the angles ; dorsal fin with eleven 

 spines and fifteen rays ; the third spine is the longest ; caudal 

 rounded ; anal with three spines and seven rays ; the second 

 spine the strongest. Entirely of a very light creamy brown ; all 

 over the body numerous, rather narrow, more or less oblique 

 stripes of a reddish brown ; soft dorsal and anal, and also the 

 caudal fin bordered with very bright yellow ; the other part of 

 the fins rather dark ; pectorals yellow. 



The specimen is eleven inches long. 



Neoai^thias. 



Seven branchiostegals ; teeth villiform, without canines in 

 either jaw, but with an outer line of larger ones in front ; teeth 

 on the palatine bones and on the tongue ; one dorsal fin with ten 

 spines ; anal fin with three ; opercule with two flat spines ; praeo- 



