91 



SERRANIDiE. 



EPI^"EPHELUS UEODELUS, (Forst) Bleelcer [No. 19241]. 



Perca urodela, Fokster, Descr. Anirn., ed. Light., 1844, 221. 



Serranus tirodelus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., ii, 1828, 306 ; vi, 1830, 513.— 



Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., vii, 1854, Kokos-eil., 39.— Gunther, Cat. 



Fish., i, 1859, 122 ; Jour. Mus. Godeff., ii, 1873, Fische der Sudsee, i, p. 3, 



pi. 3, f. A. 



9 . 3 



D. 



14-15 ^' 8-9* 



, Uniform brown (in spirits). The posterior part of the dorsal and anal, 

 and caudal fins, with white spots ; a narrow black margin to the soft 

 dorsal and anal, and a submarginal band of white j caudal with two 

 oblique white lines, converging posteriorly. 

 Locality : Fanning Islands. 



EPINEPHELUS AEGUS, {Bl. Schn.) Bleelcer [No. 19242]. 



Bodianus guttatus, Bloch, Ausliiud. Fische, vii, 1797, pi. 224.— Bloch, Syst. Iclitb., ed. 



Schn., 1801, 330. 

 CephalophoUs argus, Bloch, Syst. Inlith., ed. Schn., 311, pi. 61. 

 Seiranns myriaster, Cvv. & V.VL., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., ii, 1828, 365. — EtJPPELL, Atlas 



Fische, 1828, 107, pi. 27, f. 1,— Lesson, Voy. Coq. Poiss., 1830, pi. 37. 



Serranus argus, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., ii, 1828, 360.— Gunther, Cat. Fish., i, 1859, 115. 



kjl Serranus guttatus, Peters, Arch. f. Naturg., 1855, i, 235. — GIjnther, op. cit., i, 1859, 



119; Jour. Mus. Gcdeff., ii, 1873, Fische der Sudsee, i, 5, pi. 4. (nonCuv. & 



Val.) 



9 . 3 



Brownish-black ; head, body and, fins covered with round blue black- 

 edged spots ; more or less distinctly-marked transverse bars across the 

 posterior portion of the body; the soft portion of the dorsal, the anal, 

 the pectoral, and the caudal fins with narrow white margins ; the upper 

 half of the membrane, between the dorsal spines, light colored. 



Locality : Christmas Island. 



The name guttatus cannot be retained for this species, as an Atlantic 

 species, the Perca guttata, Gmelin {=Epinephelus guttatus, Goode), has 

 a prior claim to it. 



