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Brown generally, slightly paler on breast and belly. Head, body, 

 and fins everywhere with rounded dusky brown to blackish spots, 

 rather large or equal in diameter to pale interspaces. Large examples 

 with spots more numerous. Fins all shaded more or less darker than 

 body color or with neutral tint. Iris brown. 



Zanzibar, Zululand, Natal, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, 

 India, Andamans, East Indies, Philippines, China, Japan, Melanesia, 

 Micronesia. We admit the synonymy as given by Tanaka, with the 

 exception of Serranus corallicola Valenciennes, Serranus altivelioides 

 Bleeker, and Serranus howlandi Giinther, which are placed with 

 Serranus corallicola by Boulenger. The usually accepted Holocentrus 

 maculatus Bloch is preoccupied in Serranus by Perca maculata Bloch, 

 a synonym of the Atlantic Trachinus adscensionis Osbeck. The next 

 available name would have been Holocentrus albqfuscus Lacepede, 

 though as shown by Jordan and Richardson is replaced by the earlier 

 Perca jario Thunberg. As Bleeker pointed out, the most noteworthy 

 character of this species is the graduated second, third, and fourth 

 dorsal spines, which are much longer than the others. Of Bleeker's 

 series of 12 examples he gives 276 mm. as the greatest length, though 

 Boulenger gives 400 mm. Our materials all exceed these dimensions. 

 The species is well figured by Giinther as Serranus medurensis, 

 though its dark spots on the breast, chest, and belly are like our 

 small example, for they are much more numerous in the larger ones. 



A815, A816. Galera Bay, Mindoro. October 27, 1909. Length 445 to 468 mm. 



A799. Zamboanga market. October 9, 1909. Length 407 mm. 



A843. Talisse Island, north of Celebes. November 9, 1909. Length 467 mm. 



SERRANUS CHLOROSTIGMA Valenciennes 



Serranus chlorostigma Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 352. 

 Seychelles. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 151 

 (copied). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 463 (Luzon, 

 Manila). 



Epinephelus chlorostigma Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 

 73. — Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 203 (Red Sea, 

 Masawah, Zanzibar, Seychelles, Muscat, China). — Jordan and Ever- 

 mann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1903, p. 341 (Formosa). — Regan, 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, No. 2, 1905, p. 329 (Persian 

 Gulf); Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 12, ser. 2, 1907, p. 222 (Cargados 

 Carajos, in 20 to 30 fathoms). — Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, vol. 71, pt. 1, 1907, p. 125 (Gischin, south Arabia). — Jordan and 

 Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, 1909, p. 183 (Takao, Keerun, 

 Formosa); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 37, 1910, p. 446, fig. 6 (Misaki, 

 Nagasaki, Wakanoura). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, 

 p. 413 (Kagoshima). — Tanaka, Figs. Descript. Fishes Japan, vol. 38, 

 Sept. 1, 1927, p. 737, pi. 163, fig. 453 (Tanake, Japan). 



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

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



Serranus tauvina (not Forskal) Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Descript. Egypte, 

 Poiss., 1809, p. 13, pi. 20, fig. 1. 



