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y. General color gray, with red and black markings, (var. venetio&d). 

 yy. General color scarlet, with red and black markings, apua, 1563a. 

 ff. Gill rakers rather slender, about x -f 10 (besides several rudiments); 

 caudal subtruncate; nostrils small. 

 g. Scales not very small (about 110); color dark olive green; sides of 

 head and body with rivulations of dark bluish around round- 

 ish dark-bronze spots, large or small (these markings subject 

 to considerable variation, fading in spirits); sides with darker 

 quadrate areas. 

 %. Dark blotches on body ratheV large, often quadrate. 



BONACI, 1564. 



zz. Dark spots on body very small, close-set, of a deep bronze 

 orange. .\anthosticta, 1564a. 



gg. Scales small (120 to 140); angle of preopercle not salient, but the 

 teeth at the angle somewhat larger; general form, appear- 

 ance, and color of M. bonaci. Color olive green; head with 

 numerous dark -green streaks radiating from eye; a dark 

 mustache along maxillary; body with small, irregular, dark, 

 quadrate blotches; fins, except pectorals, mostly dusky. 



JORDANI, 1565. 



ee. Angle of preopercle more or less salient, its teeth somewhat enlarged; 



gill rakers more numerous, x -f- 12 to 14. 



, h. Scales very small (about 140); caudal peduncle without black spot; 



interorbital area scarcely concave; cheeks without distinct dusky 



stripes; commissure without yellow; caudal distinctly lunate; gill 



rakers few, about 12 on lower part of anterior arch. 



MICROLEPIS, 1566. 



hh. Scales rather small (about 120); interorbital area channeled; angle of 



preopercle little salient; body slender; caudal little concave; sides 



with small, faint spots of darker; commissure with yellow green. 



INTERSTITIALIS, 1567. 



Iihli. Scales not very small (about 110); upper part of body dark brown, 

 the lower half abruptly paler; a pale ring around the caudal 

 peduncle, behind which is a squarish dark blotch, smaller than 

 eye, at base of ujiper rays of caudal; caudal deeply lunate; 

 teeth strong. dimidiata, 1568. 



dd. Anal fin angulated, its middle rays much exserted, its posterior margin con- 

 cave; body rather robust; scales moderate (about 110); caudal fin sub- 

 truncate; gill rakers about x -f 18; angle of preopercle slightly salient, 

 with coarser teeth; seventh ray of anal nearly half head; tenth ray of 

 dorsal somewhat produced; color nearly plain dark olivaceous, the edges 

 of the fins scarcely darker. xenarcha, 1569. 



Parepinepiielus {rrapd, near; Epinephehis) : 

 hb. Gill rakers close-set, very long and slender, 25 to 35 below angle of arch. 



t. Caudal fin lunate, its angles more or less produced in the adult, the fin subtruncate 

 in the young; anal fin more or lessangulate in the adult, rounded in the young; 

 soft dorsal somewhat angular; scales rather large (lateral line 951; body rather 

 deep, the snout sharp; preopercle with a salient angle which is armed with 

 larger teeth; dorsal spines low; gill rakers close-set, x +30, the longest 7^^ in 

 head; ventrals not reaching to vent; color olive gray, with darker reticulations 

 around pale spots; fins not much darker on their edges; a dark mustache along 

 the maxillary; adult examples nearly uniform brown; not known to be red. 



RUBRA, 1570. 



aa. Nostrils very close together, the posterior decidedly larger than the anterior, and with a 

 more or less distinct horizontal cross septum within; scales on head cycloid. 

 Xy.STROPERCA {^vCTpov, a raker; jrepKii, perch): 

 j. Gill rakers very numerous, long and slender, about 24 below angle of arch; fourth dor- 

 sal spine highest; soft dorsal and anal high, but scarcely falcate. Color greenish, 

 with many round brown spots. pardalis, 1571. 



