142 PEECID^. 



u, V. Adult. India. From the Haslar Collection. 

 w. Adiilt. India. Pnrcliased of Mr. Brandt. 

 X, y. Half-grown. India. From the Haslar Collection. 

 z. Half-grown. Purchased of M. Parzudaki. 



f. With sixteen or seventeen rays. 

 99. Serranus morio. 



Cut. Sf Val. ii. p. 285 ; Gdicheii. in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 

 Poiss. p. 11. 



^■'^- ^-f 



AUied to S. giffas, but with stronger denticulations of the prseoper- 

 culum ; eaudalis slightly emarginate. In life grey, marbled with 

 brownish ; snout, lower jaw, and branchiostegal membrane red ; anal 

 fin and pectorals orange-coloured, the former with a brown edge ; 

 ventral fins "with large red spots. 



Atlantic coasts of Temperate America; St. Domingo ; Cuba. 



100. Serranus impetiginosus. 



3Iull. Si- Trosrh. in Scho7nburf/J^'s Hist. Burb. p. 005. 



Caudalis rounded. Prasoperculum rounded throughout, with the 

 posterior limb obHquely descending backwards, and with some ob- 

 solete and coarser denticulations at the angle ; tlie distance between 

 the eyes vciy narrow. Bro^\^lish, covered aU over with round dark- 

 coloiu'cd spots, each spot occupying about four scales ; they arc less 

 numerous on the fins than on the snoiit ; a larger oblong black spot 

 at the base of the last three spines and of the first ray of the dorsal 

 fin ; another spot, of similar size and colour, behind the dorsal fiin on 

 the back of the taU. 



Caribbean Sea. 



a. Adult : skin : not good state. Trinidad. Presented by J. B. 

 Piichardson, Esq. 



101. Serranus ongus. 



Holocentms ongus, Block, pi. 234 ; Bl. SrJin. p. 314 ; LorSj). iv. p. 380. 

 Serranus dichropterus, Cm: Sf Val. ii. p. 293. 



Caudalis rounded ; praeoperculum with stronger denticulations on 

 the angle. Uniform dark bro\A'n, the fins with a darker edge ; a 

 black streak behind the maxillary bone. 



Coasts of Central and South America. 



a, h. Adult : not good state. Bahia. From M. Parzudaki's Col- 

 lection, 



