70 BULLETIN 95, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Alphestes multiguttatus Joedan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 5, 

 1882, p. 375. — Jordan and Eigenmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 8, 

 1888 (1890), p. 349.— Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. 

 Amer., vol. 1, 1896, p. 1165. 



Epinephelus multiguttatus Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1805, 

 p. 255. 



Two specimens, field Nos. 09476 and 09681, 20.6 and 21 cm. in 

 length, from Lobos de Afiiera. 



Head 2.55 in length; depth 2.72; eye 5.22 in head; snout 4.75; 

 interorbital 8 in head, 1.62 in eye; maxillary 2.3 in head; D. XI, 

 18 or 19 ; A. Ill, 9 ; scales 13-75-34. 



Body strongly compressed, oblong ovate; caudal peduncle rather 

 slender, its depth 3.5 in length of head; head long and pointed, upper 

 profile comparatively straight; lower jaw projecting; villiform bands 

 of teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines, these very slender and elon- 

 gate; bands in jaws, narrowing posteriorly to one or two rows; 

 several enlarged caninelike teeth in front of jaws on either side of 

 rami of jaws; preopercle finely serrate, with a strong antrorse spine 

 at angle, and six to eight large spines above it on vertical border; 

 three weak, short opercular spines; fourth dorsal spine longest, 2.3 

 in head, soft rays higher than spines, the longest 2.25 in head; 

 caudal rounded; tips of dorsal and anal rays reaching past base of 

 dorsal; ventrals 2 in head, their tips reaching to vent; pectorals 

 rounded, 1.55 in head. 



Ground color in spirits, brownish, with traces of five or six darker 

 cross-bands; numerous dark, round spots on head, body, and vertical 

 fins; vertical fins and ventrals dusky; pectorals yellowish, crossed by 

 five or six wavy bands of brownish. 



In these specimens the snout is a little longer than eye, as stated 

 by Giinther, and not equal to or shorter than eye, as stated by 

 Boulenger. 



Genus MYCTEROPERCA Gill. 



98. MYCTEROPERCA XENARCHA Jordan. 



Myeteroperca xenarcha Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.. 1887, p. 887; 



James Island, Galapagos.— Abbott, Marine Fishes of Peru, Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila.. 1899, p. 348.— Snodgrass and Hellek, Shore Fishes, 



Galapagos Islands, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 6, 1905, p. 368. 

 Epinephelus xenarchus Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, 



p. 266. 



Rocky Islands of the eastern Pacific from Mazatlan to the coast 

 of Peru; known from numerous specimens in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology at Cambridge, from the Galapagos Islands, and 

 from Payta, Peru. (Jordan and Evermann.) 



