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PEKCIDJE. 



u, V. Adult. India. From the Haslar Collection. 

 w. Adult, India. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 

 x, y. Half-gi-own. India. From the Haslar Collection. 

 z. Half-grown. Purchased of M. Parzudaki. 



f. With sixteen or seventeen rays. 



99. Serranus morio. 



Cm\ ^ Val. ii. p. 286 ; Guichen. in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 

 Poiss. p. 11. 



D.n A.|. 



17 9 



Allied to S. gigas, but with stronger denticulations of the prseoper- 

 culum ; caudalis slightly emarginate. In life grey, marbled with 

 brownish ; snout, lower jaw, and branchiostegal membrane red ; anal 

 fin and pectorals orange-coloured, the former with a brown edge ; 

 ventral fins with large red spots, 



Atlantic coasts of Temperate America ; St. Domingo ; Cuba. 



100. Serranus impetiginosns. 

 Mail. 8f Trosch, in Schomburgh'' s Hist. Barb. p. 666. 

 D.ii. A.|. 



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Caudalis rounded. Praeoperculum rounded throughout, with the 

 posterior limb obliquely descending backwards, and with some ob- 

 solete and coarser denticulations at the angle ; the distance between 

 the eyes very narrow. Brownish, covered all over with round dark- 

 coloured spots, each spot occupying about four scales ; they are less 

 numerous on the fins than on the snout ; a larger oblong black spot 

 at the base of the last three spines and of the first ray of the dorsal 

 fin ; another spot, of similar size and colour, behind the dorsal fin on 

 the back of the tail. 



Caribbean Sea. 



a. Adult : skin : not good state. Trinidad. Presented by J. B. 

 Richardson, Esq. 



101. Serranus ongus. 



Holocentrus ongus, Block, pi. 234 ; Bl. Schn. p. 314 ; Lac^. iv. p. 380. 

 Serranus dichropterus, Cut: «Sr Val. ii. p. 293. 



Caudalis rounded ; prajopcrculum with stronger denticulations on 

 the smglc. Uniform dark broMTi, the fins with a darker edge; a 

 black streak behind the maxillarj' bone. 



Coasts of Central and South America. 



a, h. Adult : not good state. Bahia. From M. Parzudaki's Col- 

 lection. 



