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white Hakes of uneven size, thouoh all smaller than ]>iipil and with a 

 number of obscure deep brownish mottlings scattered about between. 

 Lower surface of head and body scarcely paler f)r more grayish. Fins 

 pale brownish like general body-color, margin of spinous dorsal a little 

 deeper brown, and also its base with deep shades about third to seventh 

 and tenth to third dorsal rays. Outer or submarginal portions of other 

 fins deeper brownish than otherwise. Edges of rayed fins narrowly 

 whitish. Pectoral and ventral dusky-brownish, pale basally. A large 

 dusky saddle on caudal peduncle above. Iris slaty-gray. Length 5h 

 inches. Type of Epincphelus ordinatus Cope. 



Tower Island, Galapagos (R. E. Snodgrass and E. C. Heller). 

 Serranus striatus i isloch). 



New Providence, Bahamas (Dr. H. C. Wood); St. Croix (Dr. R. E. 

 Griffith) ; no locality (Dr. A. L. Heermann) ; San Antonio Bridge and 

 Puerto Real, Porto Rico (U. S. F. C). 



Serranus morio Valenciennes. 



Key West, Fla. (Dr. ^Murray). 

 Serranus merra (Bloch). 



Thornton Island, south Pacific Ocean (C. D. A'oy); Apia, Samoa 

 (D. S. .Jordan). 



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Fig. 2. — Serranus phccostigmcEus Fowler. (Type.) 



Serranus pliaeostigmaeus .«p. nov. Fig. 2. 



E/)iiieiili('his luscoguttatiis Fowler, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Pliila., 1900, p. .502. 

 Sandwich Islands. Dr. .1. K. Townsend. (Probably not of Forskal.) 



Head 2 ^ ; depth 3^ ; D. XI, IG, i ; A. I II, 8, i ; P. 18 ; V. 1, 5 ; scales about 

 102 in lateral line to base of caudal, and 6 more on latter; tubes 61 in 

 lateral line to base of caudal, and about 5 more on latter: 14 scales in a 



