26. SERRANUS. Hi 



Sparus chrysomelaiiurus, Lacep. iv. p. 160. 

 Anthias cherua, Bl. Schn. p. 310. 



Serranus striatus, Cuv. 8fVal. ii. p. 288; Guichen. m Haniondela Sagru, 

 Hist. Cuba, Perns, p. 12. 



D. H. A. |. Vert. 10/14 



Distance between the eyes much smaller than their diameter ; 

 praeoperciilura with fine denticulations (in younger indi\'iduals coarser 

 at the angle). CaudaHs rounded. Six or seven broad cross-bands ; 

 scattered circular black spots roxmd the eye ; a large square black 

 blotch across the back of the tail, behind the dorsal. 



Atlantic shores of Tropical America. 



a. Very large specimen (3' long) r stuiFed. America. 



h. Very large specimen (2^' long) : stuffed. West Indies. 



c. Half-grown : stuffed. Cuba. From M. Poey's Collection. 



d. Half-grown. West Indies. 



e. Half-grown : skeleton. West Indies. 



/. Half-grown : not good state. West Indies. 



g. Half-grown. West Indies. 



h, i. Half-grown. West Indies. From Mr. Scrivener's Collection 



Jc. Half-grown : stuffed. Mexico. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



I. Half-grown : stuffed. Bahia. 



m. Half-grown, Puerto CabeUo. From Mr. Brandt's Collection. 



n-r. Half-grown : skins. Jamaica. From Dr. ParneU's Collection. 



Skeleton. — The occipital crest, being moderately developed behind, 

 is prolonged to the front end of the frontal bones ; the orbital edge 

 also of the latter is prominent ; the suborbital arch as in S. scriba. 

 The three spines of the opercidum correspond to three bony ridges, 

 the middle of which is the strongest and sUghtly cui-ved. The 

 hinder limb of the praoperculum is rather convex, minutely serrated, 

 and slightly notched above the angle ; in young individuals the den- 

 ticulations of the angle are stronger ; the lower hmb, sub- and inter- 

 operculum, and supi-ascapula are entire. There are in front of the 

 upper jaw two feeble canines, to which two others correspond in the 

 lower jaw ; the other teeth of the upper jaw are villiform, occupying 

 nearly the whole length of the intermaxillary ; in front they are 

 placed in many irregular series, those of the hinder series becoming 

 gradually longer and bent backAvards ; the villiform band of the 

 lower jaw occupies nearly all the lenglh of the dental bone ; we can 

 clearly distinguish two series at the lateral part of this bone, the 

 interior of which contains stronger teeth than the exterior. The 

 series of vomerine teeth form a right angle ; the palatines are provided 

 only with a single series of minute teeth. 



24. Serranus stigmapomus. 



Richardson, Ichth. China, p. 232. 



D. K A. 1. 



17 8 



Caudahs rounded ; prseoperculum finely serrated, with rather 

 stronger denticulations at the angle. Brown, with eight regular 



