134 PEKCID^. 



distant from the anal. Olive-brown above, with more or less distinct 

 ashy spots ; beneath red ; the vertical fins with blue borders. 



Eastern shores of the United States ; Gulf of Mexico ; Sea of 

 Jamaica. 



a. Adult : skin. Jamaica. From Dr. Pamell's Collection. 



78. Serranus fuscus. 



Lowe, in Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 1838, p. 196 ; Valeric, m Barker- 

 Webb and Berthelot, Ichthyol. p. 9. 



D.^^. A.i^. Vert. 24. 



CaudaUs truncated ; prteoperculum with obsolete denticulations. 

 Blackish brown, obscurely marbled with greyish. 

 Madeira ; Canary Islands. 



Valenciennes mentions seventeen rays of the dorsal fin. 



79. Serranus seneus. 



Dalouse, Geoffr. St. Hil. Descr. (TEg. I'oiss. pi. 21. f. 2. 



Serranus seneus, Is. Geoffr. Puiss. iVEy. p. 208 ; Cuv. ^ Vol. ii. p. 283. 



JJ.jg. A.-. 



Caudalis rounded. Denticulations of the angle of the praeoper- 

 culum rather stronger. Brownish green, marbled with lighter ; anal 

 and ventral fins with a blue edge ; on the side of the head three 

 oblique white bands : the first from the angle of the praeopcrculum 

 to the middle of the suboperculura, the second from the eye to the 

 posterior angle of the interoperculum, the third from the maxillary 

 across the middle of the interoperculum. 



Damietta. 



80. Serranus emarginatus. 



Valenciennes, in Barker- Webb i^- Berthelot, Hist. Nat. lies Canar. Ich- 

 thyol. p. 10. 



D. |i. A. -i. L. lat. 75. 



The length of the head rather more than one-fourth of the total ; 

 the diameter of the eye is one-fifth of the former. Praeoperculum 

 distinctly seiTatcd, with a notch above the angle ; intermaxillary 

 bones with teeth in the middle of the upper jaw only. Caudalifi 

 truncated, the third dorsal spine longest. Brownish, marbled with 

 lighter and darker. (Val.) 



Canaiy Islands. 



81. Serranus nigritus. 



Holbr. Ichthyol. S. Carol, p. 173. pi. 25. f. 2 (the eye appears to be 

 represented much too small). 



T) " A ^ 

 ^- Is- ^' To- 



The height of the body is 3 A in the total length, the length of the 



head not quite three times. The angle of the praeoperculum rather 



