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Florida coast it appears to be confounded with E. itaiara, under tbe 

 name of Jew-fish or Guasa. 



We have had no opportunity of studying it. Dr. Bean has preserved 

 for us a section of the skin of a large individual weighing 300 pounds, 

 a cast of which is in the United States National Museum. The scales 

 of the lateral line are of the ordinary type, not showing the peculiari- 

 ties of Proniicrops itaiara. 



The following table of measurements of this specimen has been 

 kindly furnished us by Dr. Bean. 



Species : Epinejyhehis nigriius ; current number of specimen, 34883 ; locality, off Block 



Island. 



Millimeters. 



Anterior nostril from tip of snout 136 



Width of interorbital area 135 



Length of maxillary 241 



Intermaxillary 214 



I^ength of mandible 327 



Diameter of orbit 51 



Length of first spine 48 



Length of second spine 422+ 



Length of third spine 330 



Length of last spine 64 



Length of antecedent spine of soft dorsal 90 



Length of longest ray 181 



Length of last ray 106 



Length of first spine of anal 23 



Length of second spine 68 



Length of third spine 70 



Length of longest ray 203 



Length of last ray 120 



Dorsal X, 15 



^aal ni,9 



Ventral 15 



Oill-rakers 10+14 



Weight, 300 pounds. 



15. Epinephelus morio. Red Grouper; Cherna Americana; Cherna de Vivero. 



Serranus morio, Cuv. &Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 285, 1828 (" New York " and San 

 Domingo); Dekay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 1842, 23 (copied); Gunther, 

 i, 142, 1859 (Cuba); Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., v, 127, 1876 (Rio Janeiro); 

 Poey, Repertorio, 1, 197. 



Epinephelus morio, Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast, 1861, 28 (name only); Poey, Syn. 

 Pise. Cub., 1868, 285 (Havana); Poey, Enum. Pise. Cub., 15; Jordan & 

 Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 379 (Beaufort, N. C); Goode, op. cit., 

 1879, 115 (St. John's River; Indian River); Goode & Bean, op. cit., 1879, 

 139 (Pensacola); Bean, op. cit., 1880, 99 (Bermuda); Poey, Anal. Hist. 

 Mat., 319, 1881 (Puerto Rico); Goode & Bean, op. cit., 1882, 238 (name 

 only); Jordan & Gilbert, op. cit, 1882, 272 (Pensacola) ; Poey, Bull. U. S. 

 Fish Comm., 1882, 118 (Key West); Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 

 1883, 510; Bean, Cat. Fishes Exhib. London, 60, 1883 (Key West, Fla.); 

 Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 124 (Key West). 



