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Table 11. — Counts made on certain species of Epinephelus and Cephalopholis 



Genus GRAMMISTES Bloch 



Grammistes Bloch, i7i Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae ... p. 1S2, 1801. (Type, 

 Perca sexlineata Thunberg.) 



GRAMMISTES SEXLINEATUS (Thunberg) 



Perca sexlineata Thunbebg, Vet.-Akad. Handl., Stockholm, vol. 13, p. 142, pi. 5, 

 1792. 



114982, Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Point, June 27, 1939, 10 specimens. 

 114083, Swains Island, reef. May 3-9, 1939, 2 specimens. 

 114981, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 3 specimens. 

 52392, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



One of the Rose Island specimens, 12 mm. in standard length, 

 has four round white spots in a row on upper sides and four more 

 such spots on lower sides; a large white area occurs on the cheek. 

 The fin rays are D. VI to VIII, -1, 12 to 14, anal II, 9 or 10. The anal 

 spines can be found by dissection. 



