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114, deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% to 3i/^; pec- 

 toral 1 to li/s ; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Back light olivaceous to paler and whitish below, with silvery re- 

 flections. Iris light brownish. Dorsals and caudal very pale 

 brownish, other fins whitish. 



Red Sea, Natal, Bourbon, Mauritius, Madagascar, Japan, Hawaii. 

 A species known by its narrow preorbital, the space from the angle 

 of the maxillary to the lower eye edge being contained in the eye 

 about 2y2 times in my examples. It is well figured by Sauvage as 

 Etelis fvlamentosus and Jordan and Evermann as Bowevsia ulaula. 

 The atypic ChaetO'pterus of Schlegel is figured with a very narrow 

 preorbital and the last dorsal and anal ray elongated. Though the 

 figure shows but 5 scales above the lateral line and 11 below, it has 

 about 82+8 in its entire course, quite contrary to the statement in 

 the description which gives 75. Schlegel thought the color uniform, 

 red in a fresh state and gives its length 381 mm. Regan notes an 

 example 230 mm. from the Inland Sea of Japan with a narrow pre- 

 orbital, 20 lower gill rakers and scales 72, with 8 above and 19 below. 

 With these items as criteria I find nothing except the increased num- 

 ber of scales as distinctive characters for Serrarms fXamnentosus 

 Valenciennes, especially as figured by Sauvage. It is therefore ex- 

 tremely likely the nominal species with narrow preorbital, numerous 

 gill rakers and rather small scales are really one and the same. 



2797 D. 5353. Cape Melville Light, S. 85° E., 16.8 miles (7° 50' 45" N., 116° 

 43' 15" E.), Balabac Strait. January 1, 1909. Length 193 mm. 



9381, 9382. Cebu market. September 1, 1909. Length 337 to 342 mm. 



19959 U.S.N.M. Mauritius. Col. N. Pike. Length 195? to 248? mm. 4 ex- 

 amples. 



50661 U.S.N.M. Hilo. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 361 mm. Type of 

 Boiversia ulaula. 



Genus ETELIS Cuvier 



Etelis CtJViER, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 127. Type EteUs carbunculua 



Cuvier, monotypic. 

 Eteles SwAiNSON, Nat. Hist. Animals, Fishes, vol. 2, 1839, p. 202. Type Etelis 



cartunculus Cuvier, virtually as Eteles Swainson, simply different spelling 



for Etelis Cuvier. 

 Elastoma Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, Fishes, vol. 2, 1839, p. 202. T.vpe 



Serranus oculatus Cuvier, monotypic. 

 Hesperanthias Lowe, Fishes of Madeira, 1843, p. 14. Type Serranus oculatus 



Cuvier, monotypic. 

 Macrops (not Wagler 1830) DuMfiRn,, Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris (Ichth. Ana- 



lytique), vol. 27, pt. 1, 1856, p. 279. Type Serranus aculcatus Dumeril= 



Serranus oculatus Cuvier, monotypic. 

 Etelides Jordan and J. C. Thompson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 24, 1905, p. 241. 



Type Etelis aquilionaris Goode and Bean, monotypic. 

 Etelinus (Jordan) Jordan and W. F. Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, 



1911, p. 465. Type Etelis ntamhi Jknkins, orthotypic. 



