134 PEKCIDJS. 



distant from the anal. Olive-brown above, with more or less distinct 

 ashy spots ; beneath red ; the vertical fins with blue borders. 



Eastern shores of the United States ; Gnlf of Mexico ; Sea of 

 Jamaica. 



a. Adult : skin. Jamaica. From Dr. Parnell's Collection. 



78. Serranus fuscus. 



Lowe, in Trans. Camhr. PMlos. Soc. 1838, p. 196 ; Valenc. in Barker- 

 Webb and Berthelot, Ichtlujol. p. 9. 



Caudahs truncated ; prseoperculum with obsolete denticulatious. 

 Blackish brown, obscurely marbled with greyish. 

 Madeira ; Canary Islands. 



Valenciennes mentions seventeen rays of the dorsal fin. 



79. Serranus aeneus. 



Dalouse, Geoffr. St. Hil. Descr. iTEij. Poiss. pi. 21. f. 2. 



Serranus feneus, Is. Geoffr. Poiss. (VEg. p. 208 ; Cut. i^' Val. ii. p. 283. 



L».^. A.-. 



Caudahs rounded. Denticulatious of the angle of the prseoper- 

 culum rather stronger. Brownish green, marbled with lighter ; anal 

 and ventral fins with a blue edge ; on the side of the head thi-ee 

 oblique white bands : the fii'st from the angle of the prseoperculum 

 to the middle of the suboperculum, the second from the eye to the 

 posterior angle of the interoperculum, the third from the maxillary 

 across the middle of the interoperculum. 



Damietta. 



80. Serranus emarginatus. 



Valenciennes, in Barker- Webb S,- Berthelot, Hist. Nat. lies Canar. Ich- 

 tlujol. p. 10. 



D.H A.^. L.lat.75. 



The length of the head rather more than one-fourth of the total ; 

 the diameter of the eye is one-fifth of the former. Prseoperculum 

 distinctly serrated, with a notch above the angle ; intermaxillary 

 bones "n-ith teeth in the middle of the iipper jaw only. Caudahs 

 tnmcated, the thii'd dorsal spiae longest. Brownish, marbled with 

 lighter and darker. {VaJ.) 



Canary Islands. 



81. Serranus nigritus. 



Holhr. Ichthyol. S. Carol, p. 173. pi. 2.5. f. 2 (the eye appears to be 

 represented much too small). 



D.ii. A.l. 



15 10 



The height of the body is iiij in the total length, the length of the 

 head not quite three times. The angle of tlie prieoperculum rather 



