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terranean form should have been found at Newport, Rhode Island, 

 and at Fernando da Noronha Island, Brazil. 



40. Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch). 

 Maceio. 



41. Bodianus fulvus (Linnreus). 

 Maceio. 



Four specimens, of which three represent the h-nber'' phase, one 

 the brown colored '•punctahis' phase. The latter has a reddish tinge 

 on the lower fins and on the lower half of the sides. It is exti'emely 

 improbable that the red, yellow and brown forms {B. riiber,, B. ful- 

 vus and B. fiuictatiis) represent more than color phases of a single 

 species. 



42. Epinephelus adscensionis (Osbeck). 

 Maceio. 



43. Promicrops guttatus (Linmeus). 

 Maceio. 



44. Alphestes afer (Bloch). 

 Pernambuco. 



45. Lutjanus apodus (Walbaum). 

 Maceio. 



Four specimens, the longest 190 mm. These are darker in color 

 than is usual in this species, three of the specimens being deep red- 

 dish-brown on the head, body, and fins, with a vertical light streak on 

 the marginal half of each scale. The fourth specimen is lighter, but 

 appears faded. The outer ventral ray and the anterior margin of the 

 anal are whitish. The spinous dorsal has a deep maroon terminal 

 bar. A series of small round, or rarely oblong, blue spots crosses the 

 middle of the preorbital below the eye, and extends to, and sometimes 

 across, the middle of the opercle. There are sometimes one or more 

 spots present, belonging to a second series, parallel to the first, and 

 extending from the preopercular notch across the cheek to just above 

 the angle of the mouth. One or more spots may also be present in a 

 line behind the middle of the orbit. All of these spots are distinctly 

 bordered by a blackish ring and do not look like the remains of streaks 

 which were uninterrupted at an earlier age. 



In all structural details these specimens agree with L. apodiis^ hav- 

 ing a deep body, large scales, an anchor-shaped patch of vomerine 

 teeth, few gill-rakers, and low rounded fins. The caudal is shallowly 

 forked, and the pectoral falcate, the latter reaching the vertical from 

 the front of the anal. The scales above the lateral line run in series 



