154 PERCID^. 



6. With nineteen or twenty rays. 

 126. Serranus dermopterus. 



Temm. Sf Schleij. Faun. Japan, p. 10. 



A somewhat aberrant species. CaudaKs rounded ; dorsal and 

 anal lins very high, the former with an entLre upper edge ; all en- 

 closed for the greater part in a thick membrane covered with scales. 

 Head small, muzzle short, scales very small. Prseoperculum finely 

 serrated, with some coarser denticulations at the angle. Operculum 

 with thi-eo spines. Uniform brownish. 



Japanese Sea. 



3. Body with longitudinal bands. 

 127. Serranus formosus. 



Russell, t. 129 (not good). 



Scipena formosa, Shaw, Zool. 3fisc. p. 23. t. 1007. 

 SeiTanus fonnosus, Cuv. i^ Val. ii. p. 311 ; Richards. Ichth. China, 

 p. 233 ; Sleeker, Perc. p. 31. 



D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 75. 



Caudalis rounded. Length of the head not quite one-third of 

 the total ; diameter of the eye 6| in the length of the head. Prae- 

 operculum without stronger denticulations at the angle ; suboper- 

 culum with some denticulations ; interoperculum entire. In life 

 ycllo^vish red, with numerous blue lines, oblique on the head, hori- 

 zontal on the sides ; analis black-edged. 



Coast of Coromandel ; Madras ; Cliina Seas ; Bata\ia. 



re. Adult. China. 



6. Adult: bad skin. India. Presented by J. E. J. Boilcau, Esq. 



c. ? Adult : stuffed. Isle do France. 



128. Serranus latifasciatus. 



Temm. Sf Schlcq. Faun. Japan, p. 6. 



D. i^. A.-i. 



12 8 



Caudalis -nith a rather convex posterior margin. Prseoperculum 

 with denticulations on the lower part of the hinder limb, and with 

 three strong spinoiLs teeth at the angle ; maxillary bone reaching as 

 far beyond the posterior level of eye as the diameter is long. The 

 first dorsal spine half as long as the second ; the others of nearly 

 equal length. Brown (in a chied state), with two broad, lighter, 

 black-edged longitudinal bands ; dorsal and caudal fins with brown 

 spots, the other ones immaculate. {Schlcg.) 

 Japanese Seas. 



129. Serranus morrhua. 

 Cuv. ^ Val. ix. p. 434. 



D. ii. A. A 



13 8 



Caudalis rounded. Brownish, with four darker curved longi- 



