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18631. Saboon Island, Ragay Gulf. March 10, 1909. Length 108 mm. 



4993. Sanguisiapo Island. February 24, 1908. Length 337 mm. 



11894, 18159. San Miguel Harbor, Ticao Island. April 21, 1908. Length 100 

 to 191 mm. (S. 594). Back seal brown, becoming slightly lighter below. 

 Narrow longitudinal stripes of dark slate on middle of side; central portion 

 brown, interspaces umber and defined from narrow pale line by darker or 

 nearly sepia border. Dorsal slaty, reddish brown at bases of membranes and 

 their center and membranes of soft fin dull yellowish. Caudal and anal with 

 hyaline membranes, rays body color. Pectoral rays dusky, membranes hyaline, 

 black at bases. Ventral darker than anal. 



5691, 5692. Santa Cruz, Marinduque. April 24, 1908. Length 247 to 288 mm. 



5718. Surigao, Mindanao. May 8, 1908. Length 275 mm. 



14215. Taganak Island. January 7, 1909. Length 145 mm. 



4903, 8866. Talajit Island, Buang Bay. March 15, 1909. Length 185 to 202 

 mm. 



7363. Tara Island. December 15, 1908. Length 385 mm. 



6843. Tataan, Simulac Island. February 19, 1908. Length 220 mm. 



12382. Tataan. February 21, 1908. Length 175 mm. (S. 272). 



22161. Tutu Bay, Jolo Island. September 19, 1909. Length 90 mm. (1957). 

 Olive, becoming yellowish on middle of side. Narrow dusky blue stripes 

 bounded by darker, stripe an interval less than diameter of pupil; yellowish 

 body stripes continued somewhat paler below and darker stripes grayish. 

 Lower jaw and maxillary with slight yellowish wash. Dorsal body color, 

 with pale bars on spinous portion and black centered ocellus at bases of 

 second and third rays. Caudal with slight yellowish tinge. Anal similar, 

 paler. Paired fins dusky. 



7662. Ulugan Bay, Palawan. December 28, 1908. Length 407 mm. 



7700. Ulugan Bay near Rita Island. December 29, 1908. Length 345 mm. 



19044. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 1908. Length 152 mm. 



7147. West coast Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length 340 mm. 



4735. Maricaban Island, Luzon. January 20, 1908. Length 185 mm. 



A1466. Cape Kait, Libani Bay, Celebes. December 29, 1909. Length 317 mm. 



14938, 22729, 22730. Talissi Island, north of Celebes. November 9, 1909. 

 Length 69 to 175 mm. 



12800. Tidore Island, south of Ternate. November 25, 1909. Length 120 mm. 



(S. 2134). Tomahu Island, Bouro. December 12, 1909. Length 77 mm. 



Genus PROMICROPS Poey 



Promicrops Poey, Report. Fisico Nat. Isla de Cuba, vol. 2, 1868, p. 287. 



Type Serranus guaza Poey. 

 Itaiara Vaillant and Bocourt, Mission Scient. Mexique, Poiss., vol. 4, 



1878, p. 70. Type Serranus itaiara Lichtenstein, monotypic. 

 Phrynotitan Gill, Standard Natural History, vol. 3, 1885, p. 255. Type 



Batrachus gigas Gunther, orthotypic. 



Cranium very wide with level interorbital region. Tubes of lat- 

 eral line each formed as several radiating tubules. Dorsal spines 

 short, low. 



The largest of the groupers, very closely related to Serranus, like- 

 wise Stereolepis and Garrupa. Apparently but two species known, 

 living in tropical seas, the Atlantic and East Pacific Promicrops gut- 

 tatus Linnaeus and the following. 



