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maxillary reaching to or behind vertical from posterior border of 

 pupil; patches of villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; an 

 outer row of enlarged, conical, canine-like teeth in jaws; preopercle 

 strongly serrate; serrations on lower border enlarged, antrorse; 

 head, body, and soft parts of basal portion of fins covered with 

 small ctenoid scales ; insertion of dorsal over middle of opercle, third 

 dorsal spine longest, 3 in head; soft dorsal evenly rounded, its height 

 2.75 in head; caudal rounded; anal elongate, rounded; second anal 

 spine longest, 3.2 in head ; tips of ventrals reaching posterior border 

 of vent ; pectoral broad, subsymmetrical. 



Color in life dark, bronze brown with somewhat obscure mottling 

 of reddish and a lighter color. When specimens are examined more 

 closely, they are found to be variable in coloring. However, the 

 general effect may be described as follows: Showing rather indis- 

 tinctly through the general body color which is dark brown, appear 

 many very irregular reddish bars and spots, and other bars and spots 

 of a lighter color, generally a sort of bluish gray. Caudal generally 

 distinctly spotted and mottled with bluish gray; the mottling extends 

 onto the soft parts of fins but all the outer parts of soft fins are 

 usually very dark, almost black; skin above maxillary, underneath 

 preopercle, along posterodorsal margin of opercle, and between 

 branchiostegals, a dusky reddish-orange; a dark bar extends ob- 

 liquely backward across cheek from eye to postero ventral angle of 

 preopercle. This bar, though generally quite evident, is not dis- 

 tinguishable in some large specimens. 



Color in alcohol: Body color seal-brown, lighter ventrally; a 

 black bar about one-half diameter of eye in width from side of 

 nostril through center of eye to upper border of opercle; a second 

 from lower border of eye across cheek to angle of preopercle ; a third 

 short bar parallel with it on maxillary extending across lower an- 

 terior corner of preopercle; a black area between first and second 

 opercular spines; upper border of opercle dusky white; indistinct 

 traces of bars on body; margins of fins very narrowly edged with 

 whitish, easily overlooked ; rest of fins body-color. 



Genus HEMILUTJANUS Bleeker. 



95. HEMILUTJANUS MACROPHTHALMOS (Tschndi). 



OJO DE UVA; PAPANOYA. 



Plecfropoma macrophthalmos Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Ichth., 1845, p. 6; 



Lurin, Peru. — Kner, Neue Fische aus Mus. Godeffroy, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. 



Wien, vol. 56, pt. 1, 1867, p. 711, pi. 1. 

 Hemilutjanus macrophthalmos Jordan and Eigenmann, Rev. Serranidae, 



Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 8, 1890. p. 345.— Abbott, Marine Fishes of 



Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 350. 



