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4733. Maricaban Island, Luzon. January 18, 1908. Length 280 mm. Marked 



with white flakes. 

 S874. Near Palag Bay, Luzon. June 16, 1909. Length 300 mm. 

 19024. North West Verde Island. July 26, 1908. Length 140 mm. 

 22499. Opol, Mindanao Island. August 4, 1909. Length 163 mm. (755). 

 22928. Romblon. March 25, 1908. Length 66 mm. 

 A588. Tara Island, Panpan Point, between Jolo and Tawi Tawi. September 



20, 1909. Length 410 mm. 

 42. Tulnalutan Island, east of Zamboanga. September 9, 1909. Length 250 



mm. (var. flavimarginatus). 

 5930, 6006. Zamboanga market. May 25 and 27, 1908. Length 335 to 352 



mm. [110]. 

 A711, A712. Si Amil Island, vicinity of Darvel Bay, Borneo. September 27, 



1909. Length 418 to 451 mm. 

 A1318, A1319. Tifu Bay, Bouro Island. December 10, 1909. Length 315 to 



443 mm. 

 A1467, A1496. Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length 240 to 



332 mm. 

 A845, A846. Talisse Island, north of Celebes. November 9, 1909. Length 264 



to 353 mm. (var. flavimarginatus). 

 A1172. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length 323 mm. 

 A1556, A1558. Kwa Siang Bay, Formosa. January 25, 1910. Length 303 to 



463 mm. 



Genus CEPHALOPHOLIS Schneider 



Cephalopholis Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 311. Type Cepha- 



lopholis argus Schneider, monotypic. 

 Uriphaeton Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, 1839, pp. 168, 202. Type 



Uriphaeton microleptes Swainson, monotypic. 

 Enneacentrus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1865, p. 105. Type 



Serranus outalibi Valenciennes, orthotypic. 

 Petrometopon Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1865, p. 105. Type 



Serranus guttatus Poey, orthotypic. 

 Menephorus Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 10, 1874, p. 50. 



Type Serranus dubius Poey, orthotypic. 

 Phaetonichthys Bleeker, Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, ser. 



2, 1874, p. 3 (name in synonymy). Type Serranus phaeton Valenciennes. 



Bleeker gives Serranus phaeton Valenciennes as the type of Uriphaeton 



Swainson, in Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, ser. 2, 1874, p. 3- 

 Enneistus Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 47, pt. 1, 1896, 



p. 1143. Type Bodianus acanthistius Gilbert, monotypic. 

 JEthaloperca Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 12, ser. 2, 



1904, p. 522. Type Perca rogaa ForskAl, orthotypic. 



Body moderate, oblong. Maxillary with distinct supplemental 

 bone. Inner jaw teeth depressible, hinged; canines more or less 

 distinct in front of jaws. Scales small, mostly ctenoid. Top of head 

 and 'soft dorsal scaly. Dorsal spines 9, soft rays moderate, 13 to 15. 

 Anal spines 3, well developed, rays 7 or 8. Caudal rounded to lunate. 

 Pectoral rounded, symmetrical, median rays longest. 



Small brilliant groupers, rather abundant in tropical seas. They 

 differ from Serranus chiefly in the presence of 9 spines, instead of 1 1 . 



