26. SERRA.NUS. HI 



Sparu3 chrysomelauurus, Lac^-). iv. p. 160. 

 Autliias cherna, Bh Schn. p. 310. 



Son-amis striatus, Cut. ^-Val. ii. p. 288; Guichen. in Ramon tie la Saara. 

 Hist. Cuba, Poiss. p. 12. 



D. 1^. A.|. Vert. 10/14. 



Distance between the eyes much smaller than theii- diameter : 

 praeopereiilum wdth fine denticiilations (in younger individuals coarser 

 at the angle). Caudalis rounded. Six or seven broad cross-bands ; 

 scattered circular black spots round the eye ; a large square black 

 blotch across the back of the tail, behind the dorsal. 



Atlantic shores of Tropical America. 



a. Very large specimen (3' long) : stuffed. America. 



b. Very large specimen (2f long) : stuffed. West Indies. 



c. Half-grown : stuffed. Cuba. From M. Poey's Collection. 



d. Half-grown. West Indies. 



e. Half-grown : skeleton. West Indies. 



/. Half-grown : not good state. West Indies. 

 g. Half-gro\\Ti. West Indies. 



/;, ?. Half-grown. West Indies. From Mr. Scrivener's Collection. 

 h. Half-grown : stuffed. Mexico. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 

 I. Half-grown : stuffed. Bahia. 



m. Half-grown. Puerto Cabello. From Mr. Brandt's Collection. 

 n-r. Half-grown : skins. Jamaica. From Dr. Parnell's Collection. 

 Skeleton. — The occipital crest, being moderately developed behind, 

 is prolonged to the front end of the frontal bones ; the orbital edg'c 

 also of the latter is prominent; the suborbital arch as in S. scriba. 

 The three spines of the operculum correspond to three bony ridges, 

 the middle of which is the strongest and shghtly curved. The 

 hinder limb of the prajoperculum is rather convex, minutely serrated, 

 and shghtly notched above the angle ; in young inchviduals tlie dcn- 

 ticulations of the angle are stronger ; the lower limb, sub- and inter- 

 operculum, and suprascapiila are entire. There are in front of the 

 upper jaw two feeble canines, to which two others correspond in the 

 lower jaw; the other teeth of the upper jaw are \-illiform, occupying 

 nearly the whole length of the intermaxillary ; in front they are 

 placed in many irregular series, those of the hinder series becoming 

 gradually longer and bent backwards ; the villifoi-m band of the 

 lower jaw occupies nearly all the length of the dental bone ; we can 

 clearly distinguish two series at the lateral part of this bone, the 

 interior of which contains stronger teeth than the exterior. The 

 series of vomerine teeth form a right angle ; the palatines are provided 

 only with a single series of minute teeth. 



24. Serranus stigmapomus. 



Richardson. Ichth. China, p. 232. 



D.A A.l. 



Caudahs rounded; praeoperculum finely serrated, with rather 

 stronger denticulations at the angle. Brown, with eight regular 



