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Iris yellowish. Paired fins grayish and margins more or less blotched 

 or spotted with brownish. 



Kischin, Maldives, India, East Indies, Philippines, China, Mela- 

 nesia. Known chiefly by the large strong spines at the preopercle 

 angle. The coloration of the body is with six dark transverse bands 

 all marked with yellowish spots. The vertical fins are marked with 

 large, contrasted, rounded black spots. According to Boulenger 

 reaches 230 mm. 



12832. Cavite and San Roque markets. June 27, 1908. Length 82 mm. 

 3252, 4066 to 4068 (D. 5360). Corregidor Light, N. 74° W., 6.9 miles (14° 21' 



N., 120° 41' E.), Manila Bay. February 8, 1909. Length 62 to 83 mm. 

 4201 (D. 5361). Corregidor Light, S. 89° W., 7.2 miles (14° 24' 15" N., 120° 



41' 30" E.), Manila Bay. February 8, 1909. Length 90 mm. 

 22469. Manila market. May 2, 1908. Length 103 mm. 

 21209. Manila market. December 4, 1908. Length 91 mm. 



SERRANUS FASCIATUS (Forsk&l) 



Perca fasciala Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. 11, 40. Red Sea at 

 Cape Mohammed. — Houttuyn, Naturk. Verh. Holland. Maatseh. Haar- 

 lem, vol. 20, 1782, p. 326 (Japan).— Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 

 131 (Red Sea). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, 1789, p. 1316 (Red 

 Sea). — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 346 (on Forskal). 



Serranus fasciatus Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, 

 p. 681 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 1, pt. 

 1, 1873, p. 6, pi. 6 (Red Sea; East Africa; Indian Ocean; China; North 

 Australia; Society Islands; Tuamotus). — Day, Fishes of India, vol. 1, 

 1875, p. 15, pi. 3, fig. 2 (Andaman Islands). — Klunzinger, Fische Roth. 

 Meer., 1884, p. 6.— Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 449.— Thurs- 

 ton, Notes Pearl Fisher. Manaar, 1890, p. 91 (Pamban). — Fowler, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 223 (Natal).— Fowler and Ball, 

 Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 26, 1925, p. 14 (Wake Island).— Fowler, Bishop 

 Mus. Bull., No. 38, 1927, p. 13 (Jarvis Island); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 

 10, 1928, p. 176 (Mangareva, Fat6, Nukuhiva, Palmyra, Wake Island, 

 type of E pine phelus zaphyrus Seale, Tuamotus, Tahiti, Tempe). 



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

 Math.-Phys. Kl., vol. 26, pt. 6, 1913, p. 10 (Mekran and Oman). 



Epinephelus fasciatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Norland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 

 66 (Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Sangi, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, Ternate, 

 Batjan, Amboina); vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (48) 326, fig. 3; Verh. Akad. Wet. 

 Amsterdam, vol. 18, No. 3, 1879, p. 1 (Mauritius). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. 

 Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 78. — Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 

 1, 1895, p. 238 (Cebu, Red Sea, Zanzibar, Seychelles, Singapore, China, 

 Riu Kiu, Japan, Amboina, Copang, Louisiades, Bonham Island, Darnley 

 Island, Tahiti?). — Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 

 p. 354 (Tokyo); Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, 1901, p. 74 (Nagasaki, 

 Shimoda, Yokohama, Kochi). — Regan, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 

 12, ser. 2, 1907, p. 222 (Coetivy, Seychelles Group). — Steindachner, 

 Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 71, pt. 1, 1907, p. 127 (Bal Haf, Soco- 

 tra). — Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 

 75 (Bacon). — Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1907, 

 p. 242 (Zamboanga). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South Afric. 

 Mus., vol. 6, 1908-10, p. 223 (Durban).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, 

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