FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 211 



Epinephelus cyanostigmatoides Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 



1873-76, pi. (5) 283, fig. 3. 

 Epinephelus melas (not Peters) Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South 



Afric. Mus., vol 6, pt. 3, 1909, p. 220 (Natal). 

 Cephalopholis boninius Jordan and Thompson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, 



No. 4, 1914, p. 248, pi. 29, fig. 7. Bonin Islands. 



Depth 2% to 3; head 2% to 2%, width 2\i to 2%. Snout 3% to 

 43^ in head from snout tip; eye 5}{ to 734, IK to 2 m snout, greater 

 than interorbital in width, l%o with age; maxillary reaches below hind 

 rim of eye or little beyond, expansion equals or slightly exceeds eye, 

 length 2 to 2}{ in head from snout tip; teeth in bands in jaws, inner 



Figure 8.— Cephalopholis mjniatus (Forskal), variation 



depressible and edges of each jaw with outer row little larger; man- 

 dible with 6 rows in front narrowing to single inner row posteriorly; 

 pair of canines in front of each jaw; minute teeth on vomer and 

 palatines; interorbital 6*4 to 6%, convex; preopercle edge minutely 

 and unevenly serrated; lower opercle spine little more advanced and 

 upper more distant from median. Gill rakers 8 or 9 + 14 to 17, little 

 longer than gill filaments or one-half of eye; 5 to 7 above and below 

 rudimentary. 



Scales 90 to 103 in lateral line to caudal base and 15 to 18 more 

 on latter; tubes 48 to 52 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 

 more on latter; 14 to 17 scales above lateral line, 27 to 34 below, 54 

 to 56 predorsal, 24 to 28 rows across cheek; basal portions of fins 

 more or less covered with small scales; body scales without fine 



