114 PERCIDiK. 



28. Serranus semipunctatus. 



? Perca septeinfasciata, Tlmnb. Nov. Act. Stockh. 1703, pi. 1. f. 1. 

 SeiTamis seir.ipunctatus, Cuv. Si Vol. ii. p. 341. 



Body with six or seven broad cross-bands ; head and fins spotted 

 caudalis roiinded. 



Coast of Pondicheny. 



29. Serranus tigrinus. 



Seba, iii. 27. 5. 



Crochihi>', sp. 4, Klein, Miss. p. 



Holoceiitrus tifi^'inus, Block, t. 237; Bl. Schn. p. 314. 



SeiTanus tigi-inus, C'lir. <§' Val. ii. p. 314. 



Caudalis slightly cmarginated. Brown, with seven black cross- 

 bands, and with oblong dark blotches between ; head and vertical 

 fins black-.spotted ; between the third and fifth spines of the dorsalis 

 a large black spot. 



(East Indies ?) 



30. Serranus papilionaceus. 



Cuv. ^ Val. viii. p. 471 ; Valetic. in Barker- Webb ^- Bvrlhclot, Ichth. 

 p. 7. 



Caudalis verj- slightly notched ; praeoperculum very finely serrated 

 behind and below ; the fifth spine of the dorsal fin longest, one-half 

 of the height of body ; ventral fins I'eaching to the second spine of the 

 analis. Ground-colour rcddish-olivc ; under-side of the head and 

 breast with violet spots ; a broad olive cross-band below the hinder 

 spines of the dorsal fin ; two other narrower ones across the tail ; 

 dorsal and anal fins spotted and lineolated. 



Coast of Goree ; (!anarian Islands. 



c. Deiiticulations of prpoopercuhmi exceedingly fine or obsolete. 

 31 . Serranus oxyrhynchus. 



O/r. <§• Vol. ii. ,,. .321. 



Caudalis tnincated ; muzzle pointed. Body with seven cross- 

 bands ; a longitudinal streak from the eye to the angle of operculum,' 

 and another obli(iun one from thence along the edge of operculum ; an 

 oblong spot in the centre of operculum. ( Val.) 



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