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Genus EPINEPHELUS Bloch. 



96. EPINEPHELUS LABRIFORMIS (Jenyns). 

 MUBiaUE. 



Serranus labriformis Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fish, 1840, p. 8, pi. 3 ; Galapagos 

 Islands. 



Epinephelus labriformis Jordan, Fishes of Sinaloa, Proc. California Acad. 

 Sci., ser. 2, vol. 5, 1895, p. 443. — Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North 

 and Mid. Amer., vol. 1, 1896, p. 1155. — Gilbert and Starks, Fishes of 

 Panama Bay, Mem. California Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 1904, p. 96. — Snod- 

 GBASS and Heller, Shore Fishes of Galapagos Islands, Proc. Washing- 

 ton Acad. Sci., vol. 5, 1905, p. 367. 



Two specimens, field Nos. 09450-1, respectively 22.3 and 21.8 cm. 

 in length, from Lobos de Afuera. 



Head 2.64 in length ; depth 2.92 ; eye 5.1 in head ; snout 4,38 ; inter- 

 orbital 7; maxillary 2.2; D. XI, 16^; A. Ill, 9; scales 11-105-35. 



Body elongate, moderately compressed, arched dorsally ; head slen- 

 der, pointed; upper profile comparatively straight; mouth large, 

 lower jaw strongly projecting; maxillary extending beyond the ver- 

 tical from the posterior border of eye; preopercle finely serrate; 

 opercle with 3 spines, the middle one long and well developed ; scales 

 of medium size, ctenoid, soma of those above lateral line, anteriorly, 

 unciliated; third to sixth dorsal spines longest, about 3 in head; 

 caudal rounded; ventrals 2 in head, tips reaching beyond the vent; 

 pectoral rounded, barely reaching tips of ventrals. 



Ground color in alcohol, dark brown, almost black ; a black saddle 

 on caudal peduncle; fins body-color, narrowly margined Avith yel- 

 lowish white; distal half of pectoral brownish; slight traces of 

 lightish spots on the belly. 



Measurements of the smaller individual: Head 2.43 in length; 

 depth 2.76; eye 5.46 in head; snout 4.12; interorbital 8.25; maxillary 

 2.20; D. XI, 16|; A. Ill, 9. 



These individuals are much darker than small examples from 

 Panama and the Galapagos Islands and show very little trace of the 

 light markings so characteristic of specimens from those localities. 



Genus ALPHESTES Bloch and Schneider. 



97. ALPHESTES MULTIGUTTATUS (Gunther). 

 COMPANERO DE MEEO; MERO. 



Plectropoma multiguttatiim Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, p. 600 ; 



Panama. 

 Plectropoma afrum Gunther, Fishes Central Amer., Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 London 1869, p. 411, pi. 77, fig. 3. 

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