projecting angle ; sub- and inter-operculum entire. Caudalis emar- 

 ginate ; pectorals extending to a white cross-band at the side of the 

 belly ; groiind-eoloiir brownish. 

 Cuba. 



a. Adult. Soxith America. Presented by Sir R. Schomburgk. 

 h. Adiilt. South America. Presented by Sii' E. Schomburgk. 

 c, d. Adiilt : skins. West Indies. Piu'chased of Mr. Scrivener. 



12. Centropristis psittacinus. 



Serraniis psittficinus, Valenc. Toy. Vemts, ZooL Poiss. p. 299. pi. 1. f. 1. 

 D. i^. A. |-. L. lat. 53. 



Operculum with three spines ; praeoperculum rounded ; the dia- 

 meter of the eye one-fifth of the length of the head. Green ; the 

 upper parts of the head and back red. Two large spots on the tail, 

 and six smaller ones along the lower part of the body and tail, 

 black, with red edge. (Val.) 



Galapagos Archipelago. 



13. Centropristis atrobranchns. 



Cuv. Si' Val. iii. p. 45. 



12 / 



Operculum M-ith a single spine ; praeoperculum angTilar. Yellow- 

 ish, with five brown vertical bands ; a black spot at the gUl-opening 

 beneath the operculum, another on the dorsal fin above the second 

 vertical band. Dorsal fin ^^-ith small round spots. 



Coast of Brazil. 



14. Centropristis atrarius. 



Perca atraria, Liim. Si/sf. Xat. i. p. 485, aud Z/««. Gm. i. p. 1314; 



Gronin: Si/sf. ed. Graii, p. Ill; Bl. Sclin. p. 88. 

 Sclifipff in Schrift. (lev Nidwforsch. Freumle Berlin, viii. p. 164. 

 Corypha^na uigTescens, Bl. Schu. p. 297. 

 Peira varia, Mitchill, Rcpori, p. 10. 

 Ijutjanus tiilobus, Lacep. iv. p. 246. 

 Centropristes nigricans, Cuv. c^- Val. iii. p. 37. pi. 44; Regne Anim. 



Illiisfr. Poiss. pi. 9 a. f. 1 ; Dekai/, New York Fauna, p. 24. pi. 2. f. 6 



(5 in text). 



■ • rufii.-, Car. S,- Val. iii. p. 47. 



atrarius, Holbr. I. c. p. 42. pi. 7. f. 2. 



D. 1^. A.|. L. lat. 50. Vert. 10/14. Ctec. pylor. 4 (Holhr. 7). 



The height of the body is 3^ in the total length, the length of tlie 

 head one-third ; the diameter of the eye is 4^ in the length of the 

 head. Suprascapula denticulated ; opercidum ■with two spines ; the 

 third dorsal spine rather longer than the follo-nong ; caudal fin 

 forked, and with the middle rays a little elongate, but generally 

 mutilated. Greyish brown, each scale darker in the centi-e and on 



