FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 229 



6561, 6562. Port Maricaban, southern Luzon. July 21, 1908. Length 268 to 



365 mm. 

 19628. Port Palapag. June 3, 1909. Length 115 mm. 

 14781. Sablayan, Mindoro. December 12, 1908. Length 202 mm. 

 19072, 19100. Silino Island, northern Mindanao vicinity. Angust 10, 1909. 



Length 168 to 207 mm. 

 A510. Tapiantana Island. September 13, 1909. Length 260 mm. 

 123S3. Tataan Island, Tawi Tawi Group. February 21, 1908. Length 217 mm. 



(271). 

 41,19188. Tulnalutan Island, east of Zamboanga. September 9, 1909. Length 



22 to 188 mm. 

 16589. Tulnalutan Island. September 9, 1909. Length 158 mm. 

 7658. Usada Island, near Jolo. March 5, 1908. Length 149 mm. (378). 

 7150, 7151. West coast of Palaui Island, off northern Luzon. November 18, 1908. 



Length 285 to 337 mm. 

 5933. Zamboanga market. May 25, 1908. Length 301 mm. (93). 

 8920. Mabul Island, Sibuko Bay vicinity, Borneo. September 29, 1909. Length 



298 mm. 

 A986. Binang Unang Island, Gulf of Totomi, Celebes. November 18, 1909. 



Length 239 mm. 



CEPHALOPHOLIS SEXMACULATUS (Ruppell) 



Serranus sexmaculatus Ruppell, Atlas Reise nordl. Afrika, Fische, 1828, p. 



107. Red Sea.— GtiNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit, Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 118 



(copied); Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1873, p. 3, pi. 2 (Red Sea, 



Indian Ocean, Society Islands, Tuamotus). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. 



bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 680 (Koseir, Red Sea); Fische Roth. 



Meer., 1884, p. 4. 

 Epinephelus sexmaculatus Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 



194 (Red Sea, Zanzibar, Mauritius, Tahiti). 

 Cephalopholis sexmaculatus Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 



175 (Society Islands). 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2% to 2J/£, width 2}/ b to 2%. Snout 3% 

 to 3 7 /$ in head from snout tip; eye 6 to 63^, 13^ to 1% in snout, 

 greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches little beyond eye, expan- 

 sion 1 to 13^, length 2 in head from snout tip; teeth form rather wide 

 bands in jaws, in mandible 4 rows anteriorly narrowing to 2 rows 

 posteriorly; pair of canines in front of each jaw, often double; nar- 

 row band of fine teeth on vomer and on each palatine; interorbital 

 6 to 93^; hind preopercle edge with very minute, feeble or obsolete 

 denticles; median opercular spine little nearer lower, which most 

 advanced. Gill rakers 7 4- 16, lanceolate, greatly longer than gill fila- 

 ments or Y<l of eye; 5 above and 5 below rudimentary. 



Scales 90 to 92 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 to 12 more on 

 latter; tubes 47 or 48 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more 

 on latter; 14 or 15 scales above, 28 to 30 below, 84 to 90 predorsal, 

 30 to 34 rows across cheek; fins all finely scaled basally; body scales 

 without auxiliary small basal scales; maxillary scales on expansion 

 in about 17 transverse rows. Scales with 8 basal radiating striae; 

 43 to 45 apical denticles in 4 or 5 transverse series; circuli fine. 



