26. SKRRANTTS. 127 



very strong and broad spinous teeth ; interoperculum with some 

 denticulations. Whitish, spotted with olive ; vertical fins with 

 brown spots. 



Isle de France ; Ceylon. 



a. Adult : stuffed. Isle de France. 



61. Serranus suillus. 



JRusseU, pi. 127. 



Bola coioides, Buchanan Hamilton, pp. 82, 369. 



Serranus suillus, Cui\ 8; Val. ii. p. 335 ; Bleekcr, Verhand. Bat. Gee- 



nootsch. xxii. p. 9. 

 Sen-anus coioides, Cant. Catal. p. 11. 



D.ii. A.f. 



Caudalis rounded ; angle of the prasoperculum with very strong spi- 

 nous teeth. Head, body, and fins greyish, with large round orange 

 spots, those of the dorsal fin sometimes confluent into longitudinal 

 bands. 



Coast of Coromandel ; Bay of Bengal ; Gangetic estuaries ; Java ; 

 Philippines. 



a. Young. Philippines. 



62. Serranus fuscognttatus. 



Perese summanse var. h, Forsk. p. 42. 



Sen-anus fuscoguttatus, RUppell, Atl. Fische, p. 108. t. 27. f. 2 ; Peters, 

 Wiegm. Arch. 1855, p. 235. 



D.-li-. A. A 



14-15 8-9 



Caudalis rounded. Denticulations of the pracoperculura stronger 

 at the angle. Light brown, marbled with darker, and covered with 

 rounded blackish-brown spots ; a large black blotch behind the dorsal 

 fin across the back of the tail. {R'lipp.) 



Red Sea ; Coast of Mozambique. (Port Essington ?) 



a. ? Adult : skin : not good state. Port Essington. " Rock-Cod " 

 of the Colonists. 



63. Serranus altivelioides. 



Bleeker, Perc. p. 38. 



D. H. A. f L. lat. 86. 



Caudalis rounded. The length of the head is 3-^ in the total ; dia- 

 meter of the eye one-fifth of the length of the head ; the upper profile 

 of the head rather convex ; sub- and interoperculum entire. Yellow- 

 ish ; head, body, and all the fins-vs-ith small round brown spots. (Bl.) 



Sea of Batavia. 



