Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1159 



Serramis maculosm, CuviEu &. Valenciennes, /. c, ii, 332, 1828. (Type, No. 7360, Mus. Paris. 



E.Yamined by Dr. Boulenger.) 

 Serranus catiis, CuviER & Valenciennes, I. c, ii, 373, 1828, Martinique. 

 Serranus arara, Cutier & Valenciennes, 1. c, ii, 377, 1828, Havana; erroneously identified 



with Bonaci arard of Parra. 

 f Serranus anffits^/rojis,* Steindachner, Verli. Gas. Wien, xiv, 1864, 230, pi. vii, fig. 213, Cuba. 

 Epineplielus cubanus, Poey, Repertorio, i, 202, 1867, Cuba. 

 Serranus stadlhouderi, Vaillant, Miss. Sci. Mex., Poiss., 69, 1877; based on Serranm macnlosug, 



CuviER & Valenciennes, the name regarded as preoccupied by Serranus maculaius, which is 



adscenscionis. 

 Seiranus lunnlalus, CuviER & Valenciennes, I. c, ii, 379, 1828; after Parra. 

 Epinephclns hmulatus, PoEY, Synopsis, 286, 1868. 

 Epinephehis gutlatus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 919, 973, 1883; wrongly identified with Perca 



guttata, LiNNiEUS. 

 Epineplielus apua, Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 389. 

 Dermatolepis angustifrous, Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 375, 1890. 

 Epinephelus cuius, Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 355, 1893; Boulengee, Cat., i, 210. 



1554. EPIXEPHELUS DRUMMOND-HATI, Goode & Bean. 

 (Speckled Hind; John Paw.) 



Head2|; depth 2|; eye 6 to 8 in head. D. XI, 16; A. Ill, 9; scales 

 32-125-57. Body robust ; lower jaw strongly projecting ; preopercle evenly 

 serrate, without salient angle ; caudal truncate or slightly emarginate, the 

 angles acute. Dark umber brown, densely covered with small pearly 

 white spots, those below smaller and nearly round, all arranged in some- 

 what irregular series; fins not dark-edged, all covered with similar spots, 

 those of the paired fins chiefly on the inner surface; lower side of head 

 flushed with red and unspotted ; caudal fin more densely spotted than 

 body, the terminal spots of a fine lavender; pectoral with a subterminal 

 band of orange. Keaches a weight of 30 pounds. Gulf of Mexico, north 

 to the Bermudas, once recorded from Charleston; common on the Snapper 

 Banks off Pensacola, where it is a valued food-fish; the most beautiful in 

 color of all the groupers. (Named for "Col. H. M. Drummond-Hay, C. M. 

 Z. S., of Leggieden, Perth, Scotland, formerly of the British army, by 

 whom the species was first discovered at the Bermudas in 1854.") 



Epineplielus drummond-hayi, GooxiE & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 173, 174, Pensacola, 

 (Coll. Silas Stearns); Bermuda; (Coll. Lieut. Drummond-Hay); Jordan JcGilbert, Synop- 

 sis, 540, 1883; Jordan & Swain, I c, 388; Jordan & Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1887, 269; Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 356, 1890; Boulenger, Cat., i, 224. 



* Epineplielus angmtifrom (Steindachner): Head 3; depth 4. D. XI, 17; A. 111,8. Body very 

 strongly compressed; scales very small, ctenoid; interorbital space not half diameter of eye, 

 which is i% in head, l}^ in snout; maxillary reaching middle of eye; angle of preopenle salient, 

 with 5 to 7" strong teeth, the two lowermost being turned forward; lower limb of preopercle 

 entire; third dorsal spine highest, twice diameter of eye; anal spines gr.iduated: pectoral as 

 long as from snout to edge of preopercle, a little longer than caudal, much longer than ventral; 

 caudal triangular; dorsal and anal rounded. Color brown, the scales edged with darker; fins 

 brownish, blackish toward tips of first dorsal. Cuba; not seen by us: referred by Dr. Boulenger 

 to the synonymy of Epineplielus mactdosus, a species to which it is evidently related. The very 

 narrow "interorbital area is the chief basis of this identification as the color markings of 

 Epineplielus maculusus are not indicated in the account of amjusli/rons. We know nothing of 

 this species except what is contained in the original description, {angustus, UfiTlow; ;ron$, 

 forehead.) 



