26. SEBBANUS. 155 



tudinal bands; cheeks with four oblique streaks from the eye to 

 the margin of the prseoperculum ; a large brown spot on the occiput. 

 (Fal.) 



Isle de France. 



130. Serranus biguttatus. 



Cuv. 4- Val vi. p. 507, 



12 8 



Back brownish, belly yello-wish ; a brown line from the eye to 

 the base of the tail ; root of the pectoral fins brown. Back with 

 two pearl-coloured spots, one beneath the eighth dorsal spine, the 

 other beneath the fifth ray. ( Val.) 



Sea of Tiincomalee. 



131. Serranus pcecilonotus. 



Temm. ^Schleg. Faun. Japun. p. 6. pi. 4 A. f. 1; Bleek. Verhand. Batav, 

 Genootsch. xxvi. p. 01. 



D. yii^. A. |. L. lat. 85-90. 



Caudalis rounded ; praeoperculum finely serrated, ^nth two or 

 three spinous teeth at the angle. Four white bands on each side : 

 the first half-moon-like, surrounding the spinous part of the dorsal 

 fin ; the second parallel to the first, niuniiig from the shoulder to the 

 middle of the soft part ; the third lateral, united with that of the 

 other side above the eyes ; the fourth, from the eye to the pectoral 

 fiins and along the sides. Back of the tail with two white spots. 



Japanese Seas. 



132. Serranus lemniscatus. 

 Cuv. ^ Val. ii. p. 240. 



Body three times as long as broad. \ brown band from the eye 

 to the caudal fin, another obsolete one beneath. (PaZ.) 

 C-ylon. 



133. Serranus urophthalmus. 



JSleeker, Batav. p. 310. 



D. ^. A. f. L. lat. 100. 



Caudahs rounded. The height of the body is 41 in the total 

 length, the length of the head 3^, the diameter of the eye 4|-4^ in 

 the length of the head ; head pointed ; the upper maxillary bone 

 reaching beyond the hinder margin of the eye. Praioperculum 

 serrated, with a stronger spinous tooth at the angle; sub- and 

 interoperculum denticulated; the third and fourth doisal si)ines 

 and the second of the anal fin longest. Ked (in life), with eight 

 alternating blue and brownish longitudinal bands, oblique on the 

 head ; on each side of the muzzle a black spot, another at the rootf- 

 of the caudal fin ; fins immaculate. (Bl.) 



Sea of Batoe. 



