FISHES OP THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 291 



Epinephehis crapao Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, 



pi. (8) 286, fig. 1. — Satjvage, Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, 



1881, p. 104 (Swatow, China). 

 Serranus diacopeformis Bennett, Life of Raffles, 1830, p. 686. Sumatra. 

 Serranus shihpan Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, p. 231. Canton, 



China. 

 Serra,7ius variegatus Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, p. 231. China 



Seas, Canton. 

 Serranus polypodophilus Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Perc), vol. 22, 



1849, p. 37. Batavia. — Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 



80, pt. 1, 1879, p. 334 (Cleveland Bay, Queensland). 

 Epinephehis polypodophilus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 



1873-76, p. 59, pi. (5) 283, fig. 1 (Java, Singapore, Banka, Celebes, 



Amboina). 

 Serranus jansenii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 13, 1857, p. 



376. Sangi Island. 

 Epinephehis janseni Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, 



p. 51, pi. (11) 289, fig. 5 (Sangi Island). 



Figure 23.— Serranus malabaricus (Schneider), young 



Serranus diacanthus (part) Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, 



p. 110. 

 Serranus gilberti (not Richardson) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., 



vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 56; vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (53) 331, fig. 3. 

 Serranus multinotatus Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 435. 



Mauritius. 

 Epinephelus multinotatus Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, 



p. 246 (copied). 

 Serranus tauvina (not Forskal) Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928 , 



p. 182 (part). 



Depth 3M to Z%; head 2y 2 to 2%, width 2^ to 2%. Snout 4% 

 to 4^5 in head from snout tip; eye 43^ to 6}^, 13^ to \% in snout, 

 1 to 13^ in interorbital; maxillary extends little beyond eye, expansion 

 13^ to 1% in eye, length 2K to 2^ in head from snout tip; teeth 

 small, conic, in bands in jaws; pair of upper front canines, outer 

 maxillary teeth slightly larger or more robust than others, inner all 

 hinged with inner front ones largest; pair of lower front canines, 

 little closer than upper, inner teeth longer than outer and hinged, 



