220 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



8712. Una Una Road, Binang Unang Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. Novem- 

 ber 17, 1909. Length 152 mm. 



13220 to 13222, 21477, 21479. Dowarra Island. December 2, 1909. Length 65 

 to 169 mm. 



9985. Maitara Island. November 26, 1909. Length 107 mm. 



12470, 13122, 13837. Powati Harbor, Makyan Island. November 28, 1909. 

 Length S9 to 145 mm. 



Three examples. Kayoa Island, between Gillolo and Kayoa Islands. Novem- 

 ber 29, 1909. Length 51 to 80 mm. 



CEPHALOPHOLIS PACHYCENTRON (Valenciennes) 



Serranus pachycentron Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 295. 



East Indies. 

 Serranus pachycentrum Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, 



1880, p. 314 (Port Darwin, Queensland). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espafi. 



Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 9 (North Celebes). 

 Epinephelus pachycentrum Botjlenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, 



p. 178 (type, Ceylon, Madras, Singapore, Malay Archipelago, Louisia- 



des). — Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk., Amsterdam, 1913, p. Ill (Saonek, Waigiu; 



Amboina). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 199 (Saleyer). 

 Petrometopon pachycentron Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



ser. 2, vol. 12, 1904, p. 521 (Padang, Sumatra); Mem. Bishop Mus., 



vol. 10, 1928, p. 173 (Shortland and Palmyra Islands). 

 Cephalopholis pachycentron Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 



1906 (1907), p. 76 (Bacon). 

 Serranus guttatus (not Bloch) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 



1828, p. 359 (specimen from Waigiu). 

 Serranus zananella (not Valenciennes) Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. 



(Percoid.), vol.22, 1849, p. 32 (Batavia, Java). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. 



Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 116 (copied). — Gorgoza, Anal. Soc. Espafi. 



Hist. Nat,, Madrid, vol. 17, 1888, p. 282 (Mindoro). 

 Serranus microprion Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, 



p. 552. Amboyna. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 116 



(Louisiades). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 460 (Samar, 



Villa real, Panay). 

 Epinephelus microprion Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873- 



76, p. 39, pi. (2) 280, fig. 1 (Sumatra, Batu, Nias, Java, Bawean, Celebes, 



Halmaheira, Batjan, Ternate, Buru, Timor, Ceram, Amboina, New 



Guinea). 

 Epinephelus boelang (not Valenciennes) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. 



Neerland., vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (6S) 346, fig. 5. 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2\i to 2%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 4>£ 

 to 434 in head from snout tip; eye 5 to 6%, 1% in snout to greater 

 than snout in young, \y% in interorbital; maxillary reaches opposite 

 hind eye edge or little beyond, expansion % to 1 in eye, length 2 to 

 2^5 in head from snout tip; teeth fine, in bands in jaws, outer series 

 scarcely larger; pair of front canines in each jaw, minute teeth on 

 vomer and palatines; interorbital 634 to 7%, slightly convex; hind 

 preopercle edge finely serrated; median opercle spine closer to lower, 

 which most advanced. Gill rakers 7 + 14, equal gill filaments or 

 nearly % of eye; 1 to 5 above and as many below rudimentary. 



