154 PEECID^. 



6. With nineteen or twenty rays. 

 126. Serranus dennoptenis. 

 Temm. ^ Schlvg. Faun. Japon. p. 10. 



D. -i^. A. K 



19-20 9 



A somewhat aberrant species. Caudalis rounded ; dorsal and 

 anal fins very high, the former with an entire upper edge ; all en- 

 closed for the greater part in a thick membrane covered with scales. 

 Head small, muzzle short, scales very small. Praioperculum finely 

 serrated, Mnth some coarser denticulations at the angle. Operculum 

 with three spines. Uniform brownish. 



Japanese Boa. 



3. Body with longitudinal bands. 

 127. Serranus formosus. 



Rtissell, t. 129 (not good). 



Scioena forniosa, Shaw, Zool. Misc. p. 28. t. 1007. 

 Serranus fonnosus, Cuv, <^ Veil. ii. f '^^1; Richards. Ichth. China, 

 p. 2'6'i ; Bleeker, Pcrc. p. 31. 



D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 75. 



Caudalis rounded. Length of the head not quite one-third of 

 the total ; diameter of the eye 6| in the length of the head. Prae- 

 operciilum without stronger denticulations at the angle ; suboper- 

 culum with some denticulations ; interopcrculum entire. In life 

 yellowish red, with numerous blue lines, obUque on the head, hori- 

 zontal on the sides ; analis black-edged. 



Coast of Coromandcl ; Madi'as ; China Seas ; Batavia. 



a. Adult. China. 



h. Adult : bad skin. India. Presented by J. E. J. Boileau, Esq. 



c. ■? Adult : stuffed. Isle de France. 



128. Serranus latifasciatus. 

 Tc7mn. ^- Schlcff. Faun. Japon. p. 6. 



D. 11. A.^. 



12 8 



Caudalis with a rather convex posterior margin, Prseopcrculum 

 with dentieulatioiis on the lower part of the hinder limb, and with 

 three strong spinous teeth at the angle ; maxillary bone reaching as 

 far beyond the posterior level of eye as the diameter is long. The 

 first dorsal spine half as long as the second ; the others of nearly 

 equal length. Brown (in a dried state), with two broad, lighter, 

 black-edged longitudinal bands ; dorsal and caudal fins with brown 

 spots, the other ones immaculate. {Schleg.) 

 Japanese Seas. 



129, Serranus morrhua. 

 Cuv. 4- Val. ix. p. 434. 



D-H- A.|. 

 Caudalis rounded. Brownish, with four darker curved longi- 



