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12599, 12600, 13273. Rapurapu Island. June 22, 1909. Length 125 to 



146 mm. 

 14095. Sabtan Island. November 8, 1908. Length 166 mm. 

 15705. Sanguisiapo Island, Sulu Archipelago, Tawi Tawi Group. February 



24, 1908. Length 172 mm. (287). 

 6617 to 6619, 22183, 22184. Simaluc Sibi Sibi Island. September 23, 1909. 



Length 72 to 158 mm. 

 4654 to 4657, 18603, 20706. Tambul Sigambul, Tonquil Island, south of Zam- 



boanga. September 14, 1909. Length 111 to 219 mm. 

 21898 to 21900. Tapiantana Island. September 13, 1909. Length 140 to 



227 mm. 

 7155. Teomabul Island. September 18, 1909. Length 190 mm. 

 18771 to 18774. Tictauan Island. September 8, 1909. Length 125 to 199 mm. 

 6649, 6650, 7918. Tutu Bay, Jolo Island, second anchorage. September 19, 



1909. Length 181 to 202 mm. 

 13423. Buka Buka Island, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. November 20, 1909. 



Length 156 mm. 

 9704. Talisse Island, north of Celebes. November 9, 1909. Length 170 mm. 

 13551, 13552. Tanakeke Island, Flores Sea. December 21, 1909. Length 185 



to 209 mm. 

 21489, 22682. Gane Road, Gillolo Island. December 1, 1909. Length 86 to 



118 mm. 

 13294. Gomomo Island. December 3, 1909. Length 178 mm. 

 12801, 12942, 21547. Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 25, 1909. 



Length 131 to 169 mm. 

 9955. Doc Can, Sulu Sea. January 7, 1910. Length 104 mm. 

 1956. Tokyo market, Japan. 1896. Length 210 mm. 

 12885 to 12887. Apra Bay, Guam. November 19-21, 1907. Length 172 to 



176 mm. 



The following represent the variety stellans: 



18415 to 18417. Limbones Cove, Luzon. January 17, 1908. Length 176 to 



182 mm. 

 Forty-seven examples. Tomahu Island, vicinity Bouro Island, Dutch East 



Indies. Length 40 to 87 mm. 

 Sixteen examples. Tomahu Island. December 12, 1909. Length 41 to 63 mm. 



SERRANUS AWOARA Schlegel 



Serranus awoara Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., pt. 1, 1842, p. 9, pi. 3, 

 fig. 2. Japan. — Richardson, Ichth. China, Japan, 1846, p. 231 (Japan). — 

 Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 150 (China). — Kner, 

 Reise Novara, Zool., vol. 1, pt. 5, 1865, p. 26 (Singapore). — Steindachner 

 and Doderlein, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 47, pt. 1, 1883, p. 23 

 (Tokyo and China Sea). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 46 

 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). 



Epinephelus awoara Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, 

 p. 59 (on Kner). — Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 230 

 (China). — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, 1901, p. 74 

 (Nagasaki and Riu Kiu). — Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie 

 Mus., vol. 6, No. 4, 1909, p. 183 (Takao, Formosa); Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 37, 1910, p. 457, fig. 12 (Takao). — Jordan and Metz, Mem. 

 Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, 1913, p. 32 (Fusan, Korea). — Izuka and 

 Matsuura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus., 1920, p. 153 (Tokyo). — Jordan 



