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Depth 3K to 3%; head 2% to 2^, width 2\i to 2%. Snout 3^ 

 to 4^5 in head from snout tip; eye 4% to 5J^, 1^ to 134 in snout, 

 greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches % to ^ in eye, expan- 

 sion 1% to 2 in eye, length 2% to 234 m head from snout tip; teeth 

 in narrow bands in jaws, biserial on sides of mandible; pair of small 

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

 palatine; interorbital 63^ to 73^, slightly convex; hind preopercle 

 edge denticulate and two enlarged serrae at angle; median opercular 

 spine nearer lower and upper advanced. Gill rakers 8 + 16, little 

 longer than gill filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 85 to 98 in lateral line to caudal base and 8 to 10 more on 

 latter; pores 52 to 54 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 more on 

 latter; 17 or 18 scales above lateral line, 33 to 36 below, 56 to 60 

 predorsal, 21 to 25 rows across cheek; fin bases all more or less finely 

 scaled; body scales without basal auxiliary small scales except on 

 head; maxillary scaleless. Scales with 5 or 6 basal radiating striae; 

 28 to 30 apical denticles, with 4 to 8 transverse series; circuli fine. 



D. XI, 15, i or 16, i, third spine 2% to 3 in total head length, first 

 ray 2% to 3; A. Ill, 7, i, third spine 3% to 4K, third ray 2}/ b to 234; 

 caudal 1^ to \%, convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% 

 to 3%; pectoral \% to 1%; ventral 2 to 2%. 



Brown, sometimes with obscure darker spots. Six dark brown 

 broad vertical bands, usually as pair on trunk and pair at soft 

 dorsal and anal. Often dark vertical bands may be imperfectly 

 divided. Iris slaty. Though fins unspotted, clouded with darker 

 and dark vertical bands extend on dorsals. Young with paired fins 

 and anal more or less dusky. 



Arabia, Natal, Madagascar, India, East Indies, Philippines, China, 

 Formosa, Japan, Polynesia. This species is close to Serranus awoara 

 from Formosa and Japan. 



18854. Hong Kong market. October 19, 1908. Length 177 mm. 

 6801. Kowloon market. September 18, 1909. Length 191 mm. 

 6827. Kowloon market. October 17, 1909. Length 253 mm. 

 11665. Kowloon market. October 5, 1908. Length 125 mm. 



SERRANUS BRUNNEUS (Bloch) 



Epinephelus bruneus Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, vol 7, 1793, p. 15, pi. 



328, fig. 2. "Norway".— Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 300 



(Japan). 

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



213 (Canton). 

 Serranus brunneus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 107 



(China). — Kner, Reise Novara, Zool., vol. 1, pt. 5, 1865, p. 18 (Madras). — 



Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 459 (Luzon, Cagayan). 

 Serranus kawamebari (not Schlegel), Richardson, Ichth. China, Japan, 



1846, p. 234 (Canton). 



