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interorbital 6; scales about 15, 95. Dorsal outline more convex than ventral; 

 body deep, greatest depth through axil of pectoral; profile of head arched above, 

 rather high at nape, nearly straight from tip of snout to nape; lower jaw 

 strongly projecting, entering dorsal profile; back high under spinous and most 

 of soft dorsal, descending rather abruptly to deep, short, caudal peduncle, which 

 is two-thirds as long as deep; caudal rounded; both dorsals high, with a shallow 

 notch between; first four dorsal spines graduated, fourth highest, equal to 

 longest soft ray, which is 2.75 in head; origin of dorsal above margin of pre- 

 opercle; origin of ventrals well behind axil of pectoral; pectoral rounded, broad, 

 reaching tips of ventrals, but not nearly to vent; mouth large, slightly oblique; 

 maxillary reaching well behind eye; teeth on sides of lower jaw in two rows; 

 body and head, except mandibles and maxillaries scaled; scales on anterior part 

 of head, and ventral part of head and body very small; dorsal and anal un- 

 sealed. 



Color in spirits light; sides thickly covered with round dark spots (orange- 

 red in life), about one-fourth the diameter of eye, separated by narrow light 

 interspaces; spots becoming more or less confluent and indistinct on middle and 

 lower part of sides; head lighter, the spots more scattered; cheeks dark with 

 round light spots; mandibles and maxillaries uniformly light in color; below the 

 sixth and seventh dorsal spines is an indistinct dark blotch, followed under the 

 last four spines by one which is larger and more conspicuous. No spots below 

 soft dorsal; spinous dorsal light with a narrow dark margin; soft dorsal spotted 

 like body; caudal dusky, black-edged; anal with black margin and a black bar 

 one-third from base; ventrals tipped with black; pectorals pale. 



Described from the type, which is fourteen inches in total length, and was 

 taken at Fusan, Korea. It is No. 4559 in the Catalog of the Carnegie Museum, 

 Numerous other specimens were seen in the market. 



The species is allied to Epinephelus akaara, but is distinguished by the color 

 and the deeper body. 



Family H^MULID^. 



122. Pomadasis hasta (Bloch). 

 Fusan (Jouy). 



123. Hapalogenys nigripinnis (Temminck & Schlegel). 

 Fusan ("Korea" 4502a). 



124. Hapalogenys mucronatus (Eydoux & Souleyet). 



Chinnampo (No. 4113a), Fusan. ("Korea" 4507a-b, 4522a-e.) CaUed 



