26. SEBRANDS. 103 



5. Serranus flavimarginatus. 



R'uppell, Atlas, Fische, p. 109. 



14 8 



Caudalia deeply forked, aualis and dorsalis pointed behind. Red- 

 dish brown, covered with small blue spots ; a black band from the 

 eye to the base of caudalis ; the vertical fins with a yellow edge ; 

 on each side of the tail a black spot. Allied to S. punctulatus. 



Red Sea. 



6. Serranus filamentosus. 



Serranus filamentosus, Cuv. 8f Val. vi. p. 508. 



Centropristes filamentosus, Milll. 8f Trosch. in Schomb. Hist, Burbad. 

 p. 606. 



L>. -. A. -. 



External appearance sparoid. Caudalis deeply forked ; the last 

 ray of the dorsal and anal fins elongate, twice as long as the preceding. 

 Denticulations of the pra^opei'culum coarser at the angle ; operculum 

 with two flat spines. Brownish, with small specks in the angle of 

 each scale ; sides lighter ; dorsal fin with yellow spots along the base. 

 {Val) 



Isle de France. 



7. Serranus zonatus. 



Serranus zonatus, Cuv. 8,- Val. vi. p. 509. 



? Serranus argyrogrammicus, Cuo. 8f Val. viii. p. 472. 



D-n- A.|. 



Caudalis deeply forked ; pectoral fins long, pointed ; the last ray of 

 the dorsal and anal fins elongate, twice as long as the preceding. 

 The diameter of the eye one-third of the length of the head ; prse- 

 operculum very finely serrated, with coarser denticulations at the 

 angle ; suprascapula denticulated. Rose-coloured in life, Avith four 

 orange cross-bands, lo.st on the sides ; caudal fin w^th a bright yellow 

 edge. {Val.) 



Isle de France. 



11. Serrani with the caudal fin slightly convex or slightly concave, or 



truncated. 



A. With less than eight rays in the anal fin, and with more than twelve 

 rays in the dorsal. 



8. Serranus scriba. 



? nepKT], Aristot. ii. c. 13, 17, viii. c. 15; Athen. vii. fol. 159; Oppian, 



i. V. 124. 

 ? Perca, Plin. ix. c. 16. 

 Phycis, Sakiani, p. 227. f. 92. 

 Perca marina, Gesner, pp. 696, 819 ; Jonston, i. c. 1. t. 14. f. 8 ; JFil- 



lu(jhh/, p. 327; Raij, p. 140; L. Gm. p. 1313; Briinnich, Ichthyol. 



Massil. p. 63 ; De la Roche, Ann. Mus. xiii. p. 350. 

 Perca no. 6, Artedi, Genera, p. 40. 

 Perca scriba, L. Mus. Ad. Fried, p. 56 ; Gm. L. p. 1315. 



