128 PF.ECTB.i;. 



64. Serranus polyphekadion. 

 Blecker, Perc. p. 39, and Jara, p. 417. 



D. |i. A. 4. L. lat. 80-85. 



Caudalis rounded. The length of tlie head is 3i-3| in the 

 total, and the diameter of the eye 5^ in the length of the head ; upper 

 profile of the head rather convex ; maxillary hone reaching hehind 

 the level of the eye. Proeoperculum with stronger denticulutions 

 on the angle, suh- and interoperculum entire. The fifth and sixth 

 spines of the dorsal fin and the third spine of the anal longest, llose- 

 colourcd in Ufe, darker on the hack ; ahove with numei-ous deej) 

 brown and yellow specks, beneath with brown spots ; all the fins 

 punctiilated with broM'n. 



Sea of Batavia, 



a. Adult : not good state. Sine patria. Old Collection. 



65. Serranus salmonoides. 



Ilolocentrus salmonoides, Laecp. iii. pi. ;>4. f. 3. 

 Serranus salmonoides, Cue. iS' ^nl- ii- P- 34^3. 



luti, Cue. 6f Val. ii. p. 303 (not synon.) ; Lcfchrrc, Voi/. Abyss. 



Zoo/, p. 230; Pom. pi. 5. f. 2. 

 ? Serranus polypodophilus, Bleekcr, Perc. p. 37. 



D. 1^. A. |. L. lat. i)0. 



Caudalis rounded. The length of the head is three times in the 

 total ; the diameter of the eye 5^ in the length of the head ; the 

 upper maxillary bone i-eaching a little behind the posterior margin 

 of the eye ; pncopereulum with rather coarse denticidations at the 

 angle ; sub- and interoperculum entire ; upper profile of the head 

 rather convex. Brownish yellow, marbled with darker ; head and 

 body with blackish and yellowish round spots ; all the fins with 

 rounded black and whitish spots. 



Sea of Batavia ; Isle de France ; Red Sea. 



a. Adult : stuffed. Isle do France. From Br. Janvier's Collection. 



b. Adult : stuffed, lied Sea. 



e. Half-grown. India. From the Haslar Collection. 



d, e. Half-grown and young. India. From the Haslar Collection. 



Tlic cross-bands mentioned by Valenciennes are nothing more than 

 darker blotches of more or less regular shape. 



66. Serranus epistictus. 



Temm. 8f SchLcfj. Faun.Jupon.^^.S; JJlcck. Vcrliand. Batav. Oeiinotsc/i. 

 xxvi. p. 00. pi. 2. f. 1. 



^■£rs- ^^-4 L. lat. 95. 

 The height of the body is four times in the total length, the length 

 of the head 4i ; the diameter of the oyo is 4.\-4i in tlie hitter. The 



