112 PEECID^. 



darker cross-bands ; a round black spot between the two upper 

 opercular spines : dorsal fin with a pale edge, pectoral and anal fins 

 with a dark one. 



China Seas. North-west Coast of Australia ? 



b. Denticulations of prseoperculum conspicuous and equal. 

 25. Serranus tigris. 

 Ctiv. S)- Vol. ix. p. 440. 



Caudalis slightly rounded ; praeoperculum very finely serrated. 

 Violet, spotted with brownish ; eight oblique cross-bands of a light 

 blue colom-. {VaJ.) 



St. Domingo. 



26. Serranus boenack. 



Bodianus boenack,, .BfocA, iv. p. 44. t. 226; Bl. Schn. p. 330. 

 Serranus boenack, Cuv. 4* ^'fl- ii- P- ^^62 (not good ) ; Bleeker, Perc. 



p. 31. 

 boelaug, Cuv. Sf Val. ii. p. 308, vi. p. 514 ; Quo;/. S,- Gaim. Voij. 



Astrol. Poiss. p. 657. pi. 3. f. 4. 

 nigro-fasciatus, Hombr. S,- Jacqiiin. Voi/. Pole Sttd, Poiss. p. 36. 



pi. 2. f. 1. 



D. 1. A. |. L. lat. 70. 



Caudalis rounded ; sub- and interoperculum with slight denticu- 

 lations, praeoperculum finely serrated ; the diameter of the eye one- 

 .sixth of the length of the head. Brown ; body with seven darker 

 cross-bands ; fins not .spotted ; caudalis with a black and yellow 

 hinder edge. 



Sunda and Molucca Sea. 



a. Young. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 

 6. Adult: stuffed. Presented by J. Gould, Esq. 



27. Serranus nigri. (Plate IX. fig. A.) 



D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 70. 



Caudalis rounded. The height of the body is 8i in the total 

 length, the length of the head 3^ ; the diameter of the eye is 4|- in 

 the latter. The upper maxillary bone does not reach to the level of 

 the posterior margin of the eye. Siib- and interoperculum entire ; 

 pectorals as long as ventrals, not extending to the anal fin. Brown, 

 with seven indistinct vertical bands ; cheeks, upper jaAV, the soft part 

 of the dorsal and all the other fins with more or less distinct, round, 

 pale bluish spots of the size of a scale. 



a. River Niger. From Mr. Eraser's Collection. 



Description. — The form, as in most of the Serrani, is oblong, rather 

 elongate ; the greatest height of the body is beneath the front end 



