1144 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Enneisttjs {ivvia, nine; io-ros, mast): 

 aa. Scales not ctenoid; tliird dorsal spine elevated; maxillary naked. 



/. Color red; a black streak on cheeks; fins all blackish on distal half. 



ACANTHISTIUS, l.')44. 



1540. BODIANUS T.ENIOPS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Head 2^ to 3 ; depth 3 to 3^. D. IX, 15 ; A. Ill, 9 (rarely 10) ; scales 10 

 to 12, 125 to 130-42 to 48, pores 75 to 82. Teeth forming rather broad 

 bands, in 3 or 4 series on the sides of the mandible; canines strong. 

 Snout \\ to \\ diameter of eye, which is contained 5 to 6 times in length 

 of head ; interorbital width 6 to 7 times in length of head ; lower jaw 

 projecting; maxillary extending to below posterior border of eye or 

 beyond, the width of its distal extremity equal to or a little less than 

 diameter of eye; preopercle very finely serrated, the serras scarcely 

 enlarged at the angle, which is rounded ; middle opercular spine nearer 

 lower than upper, lower not extending so far back as upper ; opercular 

 flap obtusely pointed, its upper border strongly curved ; head covered 

 with cycloid scales; snout and maxillary entirely or partially scaly. 

 Gill rakers 10 or 11, and 6 to 8 rudiments on lower part of anterior arch, 

 the longest longer than gill fringes. Dorsal originating above base of 

 pectoral; spines increasing in length to the third, which is about \ 

 length of head and shorter than posterior soft rays ; soft dorsal rounded ; 

 pectoral | to f length of head ; ventral shorter, reaching anus or not quite 

 so far; second and third anal spines equal, as long as or a little shorter 

 than longest dorsal spine and much shorter than soft rays ; caudal 

 rounded. Scales strongly ciliated. Dark brown (or red) all over, with 

 small, blue, black-edged spots ; a blue horizontal streak below the eye ; 

 soft dorsal, anal, and caudal edged with blue. Length 1 foot. (Bou- 

 lenger.) West coast of Africa, and adjacent islands; very common; said 

 by Steindachner to stray to the coast of Florida and the Bahamas ; not 

 obtained by any American collector, (ruwiw, band; wi/i, face.) 



SerrauMs (xniops, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 370, 1828, Cape Verde ; GiiNTHEU, 

 Cat., I, 121, 1859; Steindachner, Fische Afrikas, 1881, 4, iil. 1 ("very common on the coast 

 of Senegambia to the Cape Verde Islands and Guinea; rare on the coasts of the Bahama 

 Islands to Florida.") 



Bodianns tfrniops, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 919, 1883 ; Jordan & Eioenmann, I. c, 379, 1890. 



Enneaceyitrus iieninps, Jordan & Swain, I. c, 402, 1884. 



Epinephelus tveniops, Boulenger, Cat., i, 18G. 



1541. BODIANUS FliLVUS (Linuaus). 

 (Guativere; NictGEr-fish; Yellow fish; Bi'tter-fish; GuatIvere Amarilla.) 



Head 2| ; depth 3 ; eye large, 5 in head. D. IX, 14 to 16 ; A. Ill, 8 or 9 ; 

 scales 9-90 to 110-33, pores 53 to 65. Body oblong, moderately com- 

 pressed, its greatest width 2^^ in depth. Head rather pointed anteriorly, 

 the profile forming an even curve from snout to base of dorsal. Mouth 

 moderate, the maxillary extending somewhat beyond eye, its length 2 in 

 head. Lower jaw strongly projecting. Teeth in narrow bauds, rather 

 large, the depressible teeth smaller than in Petrometopon cruentatun ; canines 



