118 I'ERCID.K. 



Peters ( Wiei/vi. Anhiv, 1855, p. 235) unites S. vijanostiyma and the 

 following species. 



a. Adult. Amboj-na. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



40. Serranus miniatus. 



Perca miniata, Forsk. p. 41. no. 41. 



Diacope miniata, Cur. Sf Vol. ii. p. 43.3. 



Serranus miniatus, JRiipp. Atl. Fische, p. 106. t. 26 f. 3. 



' 15-17" ■ 9-10' 



Closely allied to IS. guttatus. Caudalis rounded ; praeoperculum 

 very finely serrated, and with a rather decided notcli above the 

 angle. Ked (in life), covered with small, blue, black-edged rings ; 

 pectoral and anal fins immaculate ; no fin with a coloured edge. 

 {Rvpp.) 



Red Sea ; Mozambique. 



a. Half-gro^Ti : stuffed : discoloured. Sine patria. Old Collection. 



y. With fifteen (rarely with fourteen) rays. 



41. Serranus aurantius. 

 Cuv. Sf Val. ii. pi 305; Block. Sum. i. p. 571. 



D-ra A.|. L.lat.85. 



Caudalis rounded ; the diameter of the eye is 5 or 5^ in the 

 length of the head ; iippcr maxillary bone just reaching the posterior 

 margin of the eye ; dcnticulations of the praeoperculum feeble, of 

 the sub- and interopcrculum conspicuous. Red ; head and front part 

 of back punctulated with brown ; the soft part of the dorsal fin and 

 caudalis with a black and yellow edge, the anal fin -w-ith a black one. 



Seychelles; Sumatra. 



42. Serranus sexmaculatus. 

 Riippell, Atl. Fische, p. 107. 



D.l. A. ^. 



15 10 



Closely allied to S. miniatus. Caudalis rounded. Red (in life), 

 covered with small, blue, black-edged rings ; six blackish blotches 

 along the base of dorsal fin. {Itiipp.) 



Red Sea. 



43. Serranus nigripinnis. 

 Bleeher, Bafjan, iii. p. 500 ; (? Cuv. <^- Val. ii. p. 339.) 

 D. -^. A. -^. L. lat. 100. (B. 7.) 



14-15 8-9 V / 



Caudalis rounded. The fUameter of the eye one-fifth of the length 

 of the head ; the upper maxillary bone reaching to below the posterior 



