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Red Sea, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Ceylon, Andamans, East 

 Indies, Philippines, Formosa, Japan. 



5426. Cebu market. April 7, 1908. Length 327 mm. 



18672. Hinunangan Bay, Leyte Island. July 30, 1909. Length 112 mm. (1785). 

 5878. Malabang market, southern Mindanao. May 22, 1908. Length 310 mm. 

 4488 (D. 5164). Observation Island, S. 82° W., 8 miles (5° 01' 40" N., 119° 52' 



20" E.), Sulu Archipelago, Tawi Tawi Group. In 18 fathoms. July 30, 1909. 



Length 112 mm. 

 2238 to 2240 (D. 5478). Tacbuc Point, S. 80° W., 15.2 miles (10° 46' 24" N., 



125° 16' 30" E.), Leyte. In 57 fathoms. July 29, 1909. Length 150 to 



223 mm. (1733 and 1734). 



SERRANUS COROMANDELICUS Day 



Serranus coromandelicus Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, 1878, p. 746 (on Epine- 

 phelus dayi Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 

 47). — Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 237 (Muscat, Ara- 

 bia). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 445. 



Serranus coramandelicus Pearson, Rep. Gov. Marine Biol. Ceylon, 1912-13, 

 pt. 4, p. E13 (between Chilaw and Colombo); 1914, pt. 4, p. E5 (Cheval 

 Paar Group). 



Serranus (Epinephelus) coramandelicus Zugmayer, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 

 Math.-Phys. EL, vol. 26, pt. 6, 1913, p. 9 (Oman). 



Epinephelus coromandelictis Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus.,vol. 1, 1895, 

 p. 204 (type; Madras; Muscat). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 

 1913, p. 202 (Tual, Nidrig Kei). 



Serranus longispinis (part) Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 10. 



Serranus waandersi (not Bleeker 1873-76) Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, 

 p. 12, pi. 8, fig. 1. 



Ephinephelus dayi (not Bleeker 1873) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Nor- 

 land., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 47 (on Serranus waandersi, not Bleeker, Day, 

 1875). 



Epinephelus albimuculatus Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, 

 November, 1909, p. 509. Butuan Bay, Mindanao. 



Epinephelus albimaculatus Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 4, No. 6, Nov., 

 1909, pi. 6. 



Depth 3K to 33^; head 2% to 2^, width 2^ to 3. Snout 4 to 

 43^ in head from snout tip; eye 4% to 6, 1 to 1% in snout, equals 

 interorbital with age, greater than interorbital in young; maxillary 

 reaches three-fourths to well beyond eye with age, expansion 1^ to 

 1% in eye, length 2Lg to 2^5 in head from snout tip; teeth in narrow 

 bands in jaws, biserial along sides of mandible; pair of small canines 

 in front of each jaw; band of small teeth on vomer and each pala- 

 tine; interorbital Q% to 7^2, slightly convex; hind preopercle edge 

 finely denticulate, with one or two large spines at angle; median oper- 

 cular spine little nearer lower, upper advanced. Gill rakers 10 + 16, 

 lanceolate, 1}4 in eye. 



Scales 77 to 117 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 to 15? more 

 on latter; pores 50 to 55 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 to 12 

 more on latter; 17 to 22 scales above lateral line, 30 to 31 below, 50 

 to 63 predorsal, 24 to 28 rows across cheek; body scales with minute 



