FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 297 

 PROMICROPS LANCEOLATUS (Bloch) 



Holocentrus lanceolatus Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, vol. 4, 1790, p. 92, 

 pi. 242, fig. 1. East Indies.— Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 645 

 (on Bloch). — Forster, Fauna Indica, 1795, p. 16.— Schneider, Syst. 

 Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 315 (East Indies). — Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 4, 1802, pp. 340, 380 (East Indies). 



Serranus lanceolatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1S29, p. 316 (Pondi- 

 cherry). — Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, 1850, p. 8 (PinangSea). — GtiN- 

 ther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 107 (copied). — Day, Fishes 

 of Malabar, 1865, p. 4, pi. 1, fig. 1. — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, 

 p. 4 (Zanzibar).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 18, pi. 4, fig. 1. — - 

 Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 149 (Singapore). — 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 1, 1886, p. 

 883 (Cairns district). — -Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 18S9, p. 450. — Kent, 

 Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 369 (Queensland). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1907, p. 257 (Padang material); 1925, p. 223 

 (Natal); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 184 (Apiang, Gilbert 

 Islands). 



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

 76, p. 49 (Singapore, Banka, Java, Celebes, Goram); vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. 

 (54) 332, fig. 3— Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 251 

 (Port Natal, Mauritius, Zanzibar, Seychelles, Madras, Pinang, Singapore, 

 West Africa?). — Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, vol. 12, 

 1904, p. 524 (Padang, Sumatra). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South 

 Afric. Mus., vol. 6, 1908-10, p. 219 (Durban Museum). — Barnard, Ann. 

 South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, 1927, p. 486 (Natal coast). — Jordan, Ever- 

 mann, Tanaka, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 16, No. 20, 1927, 

 p. 654 (Honolulu). 



Promicrops lanceolata Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 25, 1902, p. 342 (Formosa). 



Serranus geographicus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 322. Java. — 

 Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 150 (copied). 



Serranus horridus (not Cuvier) Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, 1850, p. 9 

 (Pinang Sea, Singapore). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, 

 p. 136 (no locality). 



Batrachus gigas Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 3, 1869, p. 131. 

 Seychelles Islands. 



Oligorus terrae-reginae Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, 

 1881, p. 93. Northern rivers and inlets of Wide Bay district and mouth 

 of Barrum River, about 20 miles from Maryborough, Queensland. 



Oligorus goliath De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 1883, 

 p. 318. Queensland. 



Depth 3K to 3%; head 2K to 2^, width 2 to 2}/ 8 . Snout 4^ to 

 5 in head from snout tip; eye 7% to 83^, \% to \%m snout, 1% to 

 1% in interorbital; maxillary reaches well beyond eye, expansion 1 

 to \\i in eye, length 2 to 2}/% in head from snout tip; teeth equal, 

 in broad bands in jaws and 3 rows in mandible laterally; in young 

 mandibular teeth narrow biserially; pair of small canines in front of 

 each jaw, often double; vomer and palatines with broad bands of 

 small teeth; interorbital 4% to 5J^, little elevated; preopercle edge 

 with very obsolete denticulations or nearly smooth; 3 opercular spines, 



