26. SERRANUS. 117 



operculum scarcely visible ; the diameter of the eye one-fifth of the 

 length of the head ; upper maxillary bone reaching beyond the 

 hinder margin of the eye; the second anal spine longest. Dark 

 brown on the sides, each scale with a black speck ; head with nu- 

 merous small, round, blue, black-edged spots ; fins immaculate. 

 Seas of Java, China, and Amboyna ; Louisiade Archipelago. 



Bleeker gives for the dorsal fin ,-^, which number would be — ^ 



° 15-10' 14-15 



according to my way of counting the rays ; but all our specimens 

 (ex ept one with seventeen rays) exhibit sixteen rays, one of them 

 coming from Amboyna, and procured from a Dutch collection, with 

 the name of S. microjynon, 



a. Adult. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



b. Adult. China. 



c. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



d. Adult : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago. From Mr. M'Gillivray's 



Collection. 



e. Adult : stuifed. Louisiade Archipelago (7 fathoms, on sand and 



coral). Voyage of the Rattlesnake. 

 /. Adult : stuffed. Louisiade Archipelago (30 fathoms). Voyage of 

 the Rattlesnake. 



38. Serranus cyanostigmatoides. 



Serranu8 guttatus, Cuv. % Val. ii. p. 357 (not Peters). 

 cyanostigmatoides, Bleek. Perc. p. 31. 



D 9 A ^ 

 ^- 16- ^- 9~0- 



Caudalis rounded ; sub- and interoperculum denticulated ; prae- 

 operculum very finely serrated, the lower limb entire ; operculum 

 with three conspicuous spines, upjier one shortest ; the diameter of 

 the eye one-sixth of the length of the head ; length of the head 

 not quite one-third of the total. Red (in life), all parts with round, 

 blue, dark-edged spots ; all the fins, except pectoral fins, dark-edged ; 

 two white streaks between eye and muzzle. 



Seas of Java and AmbojTia. 



a. Half-grown. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 

 h. Half-grown. Amboyna. From Mr. Frank's Collection. 



39. Serranus cyanostigma. 



Renard, Poiss. 3Iol. t. 28. f. 153 ; Valent. iii. p. 392. 

 Serranus cyanostigma, {Kuhl ^ v. Hass.) Cuv. Sf Val. ii. p. 359, and 

 Bigne Anim. III. pi. 8. f. 2 ; Bleeker, Perc. p. 32. 



D. ^. A. 4. L. lat. 75. 



Caudalis rounded ; sub- and interoperculum entire, praeoperculum 

 very finely serrated ; the diameter of the eye 6^ in the length of the 

 head. Red (in life), with numerous small, round, blue, darker- 

 edged spots on the head and fins ; fins blue-edeed. 



Javanese Sea. 



