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In alcohol light sienna or brown, little paler below. Body and fins 

 everywhere with small round blackish spots, largest not over half 

 pupil and none greater in diameter than width of pale interspaces. 

 In 3 7 oung dark spots comparatively large and greatly fewer. Adult 

 with 4 or 5 dark obscure saddles along back at bases of dorsals, also 

 one may be present as saddle on caudal peduncle above; all saddles 

 appear as if underlaid, though little evident in young. Fins of adult 

 somewhat darker gray terminally. Pectoral sometimes with narrow 

 whitish margin. Iris brown. 



India, Bengal Bay, East Indies, Philippines, Melanesia, Micronesia, 

 Polynesia. We follow Boulenger in retaining this species, though 

 Tanaka has merged it with S err anus jario (Thunberg). Although 

 Boulenger gives Serranus howlandi Gunther as a synonym it differs 

 from all our examples in the larger and closer set dark spots, also its 

 pectoral is largely unspotted, besides the fins are with greatly fewer 

 spots. We have much larger specimens than Boulenger gives, which 

 largest is 385 mm. Our materials agree entirely in the small size of the 

 spots, their distribution and in having the pectoral always entirely 

 spotted. 



6511. BalikiasBay, China Sea, vicinity southern Luzon. June 17, 1908. Length 



287 mm. 

 14505. Biri Channel, Batag Island, east coast Luzon. June 2, 1909. Length 



247 mm. 

 7814. Bugsuk Island, North Balabac Strait. January 5, 1909. Length 483 



mm. 

 8802 to 8804. Butauanan Island. June 13, 1909. Length 284 to 479 mm. 

 8378. Calangaman Island, between Leyte and Cebu. March 16, 1909. Length 



446 mm. 

 7552. Endeavor Strait, Malampaya Sound, Palawan Island. December 23, 



1908. Length 276 mm. 

 1702. Galvaney Island, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 9, 1909. Length 140 mm. 

 11770. Iloilo market, Iloilo. June 2, 1908. Length 166 mm. 

 8364. Malapascua Island, north of Cebu. March 16, 1909. Length 298 mm. 

 6300, 6301. Manila market, Manila. June 13, 1908. Length 236 to 246 mm. 

 g335. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao Island. August 21, 1909. Length 445 mm. 

 5903. Polloc, Mindanao. May 22, 1908. Length 214 mm. (99). Brownish 



or slaty with numerous darker spots. Soft verticals become darker vertically, 



narrowly edged with white. 

 8790. Quinalasag Island, Masamat Bay, east coast of Luzon. June 12, 1909. 



Length 261 mm. 

 A1465. Cape Kait, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length 363 mm. 



SERRANUS CAERULEO-PUNCTATUS (Bloch) 



Holoccntrus caeruleo-punctatus Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, vol. 4, 1790, 

 p. 94, pi. 241, fig. 2. No locality.— Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, 

 p. 646 (on Bloch). — Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 340, 

 384 (on Bloch). 



Serranus caeruleopunctatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, 

 p. 366 (no locality). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1865, p. 108 

 (type). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 224 (Natal). 



