498 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.42. 



VARIOLA FLAVIMARGINATA (Riippell); 

 CEPHALOPHOLIS URODELUS (Forster). 



Several specimens from the market show a considerable amount of 

 variation in color. Two are almost black, except for light, conver- 

 gent caudal stripes which are separated by jet black areas. A third 

 specimen has only the tail and caudal fin of a dusky hue, while a 

 fourth is almost entirely without dark color, the caudal stripes being 

 very faint. The darkest example has a dusky opercular spot, and 

 all have black-edged ventrals. 



One small specimen was taken in a tide pool. 



CEPHALOPHALUS SONNERATI (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



One example from the market measures 300 millimeters in length. 

 The second anal spine is slightly shorter and heavier than the third. 

 The fins, except the pectorals, have narrow dusky borders, the dorsal, 

 anal, and caudal being edged with white. 



EPINEPHELUS MEGACHIR (Richardson). 



Many were seen in the market, and a few were taken in the pools. 



EPINEPHELUS STELLATUS (Richardson). 



Collected from both the market and pools. 



EPINEPHELUS TSIRIMENARA (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Market specimens were light crimson, each scale with a lighter cen- 

 ter; spinous dorsal with a black margin, the other fins with yellowish 

 margins. 



EPINEPHELUS TAUVINA (Forskal). 

 EPINEPHELUS C-ffiRULEOPUNCTATUS (Bloch). 



One small example from a tide pool. 



EPINEPHELUS SUMMANA (Forskal). 



One very dark specimen, the light spots of the body being very 

 indistinct, while those of the fins are more prominent. 



EPINEPHELUS RHYNCHOLEPIS Bleaker. 



Small, pearly spots, prominent in examples from the market, have 

 almost entirely disappeared in the preserved specimens. 



PLESIOPS MELAS (Bleeker). 



This species is abundantly represented in the pools. In life the 

 body is deep brownish black, the color a little lighter on basal parts 

 of scales; iris blue and gold; dorsal spines tipped with bright reddish 

 orange, a narrow, purple stripe extending along middle of fin, the 

 membrane of soft dorsal dark yellowish gray below the stripe ; pectoral 

 tinged with yeUow; anal with an indistinct, narrow, pearly blue stripe 

 passing diagonally from base of first spine to tip of last ray. In 

 alcohol the specimen here described has become brownish black, the 

 spinous dorsal being tipped with white. 



