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narrow bands in jaws, rather long and slender, biserial along sides of 

 mandible; pair of canines in front of each jaw; bands of small teeth 

 on vomer and palatines; interorbital 6)4, slightly convex; hind pre- 

 opercle edge with small blunt denticles, 3 enlarged at angle; median 

 opercular spine nearer lower and upper most advanced. Gill rakers 

 7 + 14, lanceolate, slender, longer than gill filaments or Yi of eye; 6 

 above and 4 below rudimentary. 



Scales 108 in lateral line to caudal base and 10? more on latter; 

 tubes 58 in lateral line to caudal base and 4? more on latter; 22 scales 

 above lateral line, 33 below, 78 predorsal, 33 rows across cheek to pre- 

 opercle angle; body scales with small basal auxiliary scales except on 

 predorsal and head above; fins all with fine basal scales; maxillary 

 naked. Scales with 7 to 9 basal radiating striae; 24 to 32 apical 

 denticles, with 3 series transversely; circuli fine. 



D. XI, 15, i, third spine 3)4 in total head length, first ray 3%; A. 

 Ill, 7, i, third spine 4, third ray 2^5; caudal 2, truncate, rounded 

 convexly behind as expanded; least depth of caudal peduncle 4%; 

 pectoral 2; ventral 2^3. 



Uniform blackish brown, apparently stained in preservative. Some 

 still darker obscure horizontal streaks, ascending slightly posteriorly. 

 Several dark, oblique streaks on side of head. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zululand, Natal, Mauritius, Madagascar, India, 

 East Indies, Philippines, Japan. We have but a single example. 



4839. Jolo market, Jolo. February 11, 1908. Length 350 mm. 



SERRANUS FLAVO-CAERULEUS (Lacfipede) 



H olocentrus Jlavo-caer-uleus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 331, 

 367. Mauritius. 



Serranus Jlavocaer uleus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, 

 p. 297 (Mauritius). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 145 

 (Mauritius and Ceylon). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 10 (Zan- 

 zibar). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 15, pi. 3, fig. 1 (Andamans); 

 Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 448. — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., 

 vol. 10, 1928, p. 177 (Gilbert and Ebon Islands). 



Serranus Jlavocaeruleus Peters, Arch. Naturg., 1855, p. 236 (Mozambique). 



Epinephelus Jlavocaeruleus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 435 

 (Mauritius). — Gunther, Trans. Roy Soc. London, vol. 168, 1879, p. 470 

 (Rodriguez). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 62. — 

 Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 198 (Zanzibar, Mauri- 

 tius, Rodriguez, Ceylon, Madras, China, Formosa, Mortlock, Micronesia, 

 Ponape). — Pellegrin, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 13, 1907, p. 204 

 (Tulear Bay, Madagascar). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. 

 Mus., vol. 13, pt. 3, 1914, p. 67 (Natal).— Barnard, Ann. South Afric. 

 Mus., vol. 21, 1927, p. 475 (Natal coast). 



Epinephelus Jlavocaeruleus var. Jlavocaeruleus Steindaciiner, Denkschr. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 71, pt. 1, 1907, p. 125 (Gischin, Makalla, Socotra). 



Holocentrus gymnosus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pi. 27, fig. 2; 

 vol. 4, 1802, pp. 335, 372. Chinese manuscripts. 



Bodianus macrocephalus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pi. 20, fig. 

 3; vol. 4, 1802, pp. 281, 293. No locality. (On Commerson.) 



