114 PERCID^. 



28. Serranus semipunctatus. 



? Perca septemfcciata, Thunb. Nov. Act. Sfockh. 1793, pi. 1. f. 1. 

 Sen-anus semipunctatus, Cur. i^ Val. ii. p. 341. 



15 10 



Body with six or seven broad cross-band.s ; head and fins spotted ; 

 caudalis rounded. 



Coast of Pondicheny. 



29. Serranus tigrinus. 



Seba, iii. 27. 5. 



Crochilus, sp. 4, Kleiti, Miss. p. 



Holocentfus tigTinus, Block, t. 237; Bl. Schn. p. 314. 



Serranus tigiinus, Cuv. ^- Val. ii. p. 314. 



D-H- A.f. 



Caudalis slightly emarginated. Brown, with seven black cross- 

 bands, and with oblong dark blotches between ; head and vertical 

 fins black-spotted ; between the third and fifth sjjines of the dorsalis 

 a large black spot. 



(Ea.st Indies?) 



30. Serranus papilionaceus. 



Cuv. 8f Val. viii. p. 471 ; Valenc. in Barker-Webb S,- Berthelot, Ichth. 

 p. 7. 



D. i-». X.K 



15 S 



Caudalis very slightly notched ; prEeoperculum very finely serrated 

 behind and below ; the fifth spine of the dorsal fin longest, one-half 

 of the height of body ; ventral fins reaching to the second spine of the 

 analis. Ground-coloiu reddish-olive ; under-side of the head and 

 breast with violet spots ; a broad olive cross-band below the hinder 

 spines of the dorsal fin ; two other narrower ones across the tail ; 

 dorsal and anal fins spotted and lineolated. 



Coast of Goree ; Canarian I.slands. 



c. Denticulations of praeopercidum exceedingly fine or obsolete. 

 31. Serranus oxyrhynchus. 



Cur. <§• Vnl ii. p. 321. 



D. ii'. A. 1. 



14 8 



Caudalis truncated ; muzzle pointed. Body with seven cross- 

 bands ; a longitudinal streak from the eye to the angle of operculum, 

 and another oblique one from thence along the edge of operculum ; an 

 oblong spot in the centre of operculum. {Val.) 



Hah. ? 



