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is nearly equal to the third. The caudal is truncate with two prolonged 

 points. The other rays each end in a point, there being a deep notch of 

 the membrane between each one and its neighbor. 



Scales small, ciliated, covering most of the head, as usual. 



Color, dark brownish olive with rounded spots of yellowish, obscure 

 in some specimens; hps yellowish; iris olive; fins dark brown, darker 

 on the edges of the vertical fins, with a pale edge along the soft dorsal 

 and anal. The caudal has a beautiful green cross-band, preceding the 

 denticulations of its extremity. The pectoral towards the center is 

 yellowish, followed by a dark color coming from the coloration of the 

 rays; all the posterior margin is green. 



Pyloric coeca 12, large and firm. 



Later, Poey describes the color as clear yellowish brown, with brown 

 spots. A living specimen showed eight narrow dusky cross-bands, 

 which disappeared after death. 



D. XI, 17; A. Ill, 12. Third soft ray of the anal more prolonged. 



6. Mycteroperca dimidiata. 



Serranus dimidiatiis, Poey, Memorias Cuba, 1860, ii, 129 (Cuba). 

 Trisotropis dimidiatus, Poey, Syn. Pise. Cubens., 1868, 285 ; Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. N.Y., 1869, 308; Poey, Enum. Pise. Cubens., 1875,14. 



Habitat. — Cuba. 



This species is known only from Poey's accounts. The coloration as 

 given by Poey is unlike that of any other species known to us. We 

 therefore admit it as distinct, but regard it as a doubtful species. 



7. Epinephelus microlepis. Gag; Aguaji. 



Serranus acutirostris, Cuvier& Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 432 (Charles- 

 ton : no descr. ; not type) ; Dekay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 1842, 23 

 (Charleston). 



Trisotropis acutirostris, Gill. Eept.U. S. Fish. Comm. , 1871-72, 806. (Nameonly. ) 



Trisotropis hrunneu^, Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. , 1879, 115, 143. (Pen- 

 sacola; not of Poey.) 



Trisotropis microlepis, Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 141 (West 

 Florida); Goode «fc Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 18-'2, 238 (no descr.); 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 538 (copied). 



Epinephelus viicrolepis, 3 o-!:Aan,Vvoc, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 124. (Key West; 

 Cedar Keys. ) 



Trisotrojm stomias, Goode & Bean, MSS. ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1882, 273 (Pensacola); Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 427 

 (Pensacola; Key West); Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 918, 971; 

 Bean, Cat. Fishes Exhib. London, 1883, 61 (Pensacola). 



Head, 2| (3f ) ; depth, 3^ {^). D. XI, 17 ; A. Ill, 11. Scales, 2G-145-X. 

 Length, 11^ inches. 



Body comparatively elongate, compressed, its greatest width 2\ in 

 greatest depth. Head long, rather pointed, compressed, its anterior 

 profile comparatively evenly curved and not much arched; mouth com- 

 paratively large, the maxillary extending (in the young a foot long) 

 slightly beyond the eye, its length 2| in head. In the adult the max- 



