FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 227 



Bodianus gutatus (preoccupied by Pcrca guttata Linnaeus) Bloch, Naturg. 

 Ausliind. Fische, vol. 4, 1790, p. 36 (East or West Indies, Africa, St. 

 Helena Island, Jamaica; part). 



Bodianus guttatus Bloch, Naturg. Ausliind. Fische, vol. 4, 1790, pi. 224. — 

 Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 674 (on Bloch). — Forster, Fauna 

 Indica, 1795, p. 16.— Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 330 (Japan)- 



Serranus guttatus Peters, Arch. Naturg. 1855, p. 235 (Mozambique). — 

 Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 119 (Mauritius, Ceylon, 

 Borneo). — Kner, Reise Novara, Zool., vol. 1, pt. 5, 1865, p. 22 (Tahiti). — 

 Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 686 (Red 

 Sea).— Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 5, pi. 4 

 (Red Sea, East Africa, North Australia, Polynesia). — Day, Fishes of 

 India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 24, pi. 6, fig. 3. — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 5, 1880, p. 315 (north coast of Australia). — Klunzinger,. 

 Fische Roth. Meor., 1884, p. 3.— Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, 

 p. 457. 



Perca miniata (part) Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, p. 41. 



Bodianus jacob-evertsen (part) Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, 

 p. 296. 



Serranus luti (not Forskal) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 363. 



Serranus myriaster Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 365. Bora- 

 bora, Society Islands, and Hawaiian Islands. — Ruppell, Atlas Reise nordl. 

 Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 107, pi. 27, fig. 1 (Red Sea).— Lesson, Voy. 

 Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, 1830, p. 234, pi. 37 (Borabora).— Quoy and 

 Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe. Zool., vol. 3, 1834, p. 653, pi. 3, fig. 1 (New 

 Guinea). — Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 102 (reference 

 only). — Richardson, Ichth. China, Japan, 1845, p. 233 (China). — Guiche- 

 not, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 23. 



Cromileptes myriaster Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, 1839, p. 201 

 (on Ruppell, pi. 27, fig. 1). 



Serranus immunerur Thiolliere, Fauna Woodlark, 1857, p. 144. Woodlark 

 Island. 



Serranus perguttatus De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, 

 1883, p. 445. New Hebrides. 



Serranus thyr sites Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 369 (Queensland). 



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

 1906 (1907), p. 76, fig. 11. Bacon. 



Depth 2% to 3K; head 2}/ z to 2%, width 2}<i to 2 l A- Snout 3}^ 

 to 4J-3 in head from snout tip; eye 5 to 8^3, lXo to 2 in snout, greater 

 than interorbital to \ x /i with age; maxillary reaches little beyond eye 

 or 13^ eye diameters with age, expansion 1J4 in eye to greater than 

 eye diameter with age, length 1% to 2 in head from snout tip; broad 

 bands of fine teeth in jaws, inner upper and lower enlarged and 

 depressible; 6 rows of teeth in front of mandible, narrowing poste- 

 riorly; pair of front canines in each jaw; bands of small teeth on 

 vomer and palatines; interorbital 6^ to 8, but slightly convex; pre- 

 opercle edge nearly entire or serrae obsolete, opercular spines 3, 

 median most posterior and little nearer upper than lower. Gill rakers 

 9 to 11 + 17, lanceolate, little less than gill filaments or }/i of eye; 8 

 to 10 upper and 10 lower rudimentary. 



