442 FISHES COLLECTED BY THE ALBATROSS— GILBERT. vol.xix. 



One specimen, C^ inches long, from Clarion Island, of tlie Eevilla- 

 Gigedo grouj), Mexico. It had been captured by a booby bird, but 

 was still in good condition when taken by us. 



Family CENTK( ) IM )MI D.E. 

 CENTROPOMUS CONSTANTINUS, Jordan and Starks. 



Ileadli.^; depth 3.i ; eye ."» in head; snout 3.^; interorbital two-thirds 

 eye; dorsal VIII-I, 10; anal III, 7; scales 10-07-13. Posterior half 

 of preorbital rather strongly retrorse-serrate, anterior portion entire; 

 maxillary extending to below the middle of orbit, 2.^ in head; sub- 

 opercular flap ending nearly to within 4 scales of the vertical from 

 the origin of dorsal. Gill rakers 44-0. 21 series of scales before first 

 dorsal. Third and fourth dorsal spine equal, about half as long as 

 head; second anal spine longer and much stronger than third, I5 in 

 head, the third longer than the soft rays; ventral s long, 1^ in head, 

 nearly reaching vent, their length not quite equal to distance from their 

 tips to anal. Air bladder with very short, blunt, anterior api)endages, 

 which are not more than half the length of the ])upil. Pectorals 2 in 

 head; caudal short, with roundish lobes, 2 in head. Olive; sides sil- 

 very; lateral line dusky; head pale; ventrals pale; tips of dorsal and 

 mem))rane behind anal spines blackish. Known from 3 si^ecimens col- 

 lected at Bahia, Brazil, by the Albatross. 



Type. — ^o. 43280, U.S.N.IM. The description is drawn from a speci- 

 men 8^ inches long, in the Leland Stanfonl Junior University jMuseum, 

 :^o. 1633. 



This species appears as new in Jordan and Evermann, "Fishes of 

 North and Middle America."' 



Family SEKRANID^. 

 EPINEPHELUS NIPHOBLES, Gilbert and Starks, new species. 



Head 2g in body; depth 2i; dorsal XI-14; anal 111,0; scales 

 ir)-ll(»-40; eyes 5 in head; maxillary 2; third dorsal spine 2§; middle 

 dors.il rays 2^; highest anal rays 2; third anal spine 3i^; i)ectoraI 1|; 

 ventrals 1]; caudal If. 



Form rather robust, moderately compressed; dorsal outline uniformly 

 curved from tip of snout to caudal peduncle; mouth large, the maxillary 

 reaching to below i)osterior orbital rim; lower jaw strongly projecting; 

 teeth conical and sharj), in one or two bands at sides of jaws, three or 

 four in front ; upi)erj'aw with a rather strong canine on each side of front; 

 snout longer than eye; nostrils close together, the posterior one the 

 larger, a little in front of the vertical from front of eye, the anterior in 

 a short, wide tube with a Hap behind; vertical and horizontal limbs of 

 preopercle meeting at riglit angles, its edge with blunt serra-, those at 



'See Voluiiic I, p. 1125; publiahecl October 3, 1896. 



