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This example is 16 inches long (caudal damaged), though Holbrook 

 states that the total length is 2 feet. However, the original label 

 indicates this as the type, together with the locality as Charleston. 

 Holbrook also says that the caudal was somewhat mutilated in the 

 only example he ever saw. 



Color in alcohol of young deep chocolate-brown generally. Dorsals, 

 anals and ventrals inclining to slaty or livid blackish. Margin of 

 rayed dorsal broadly, and rayed anal more narrowly, becoming pale 

 brownish and then whitish along edges. Caudal and pectoral white, 

 latter chocolate-brown at base. Lower surface of head and jaws 

 tinted with dull bro^Mi. Iris slaty. Length 3^ inches. Katama 

 Bay, Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Dr. H. M. Smith. 

 Epinephelus chloropterus (Cm-ier). 



St. Martin's (Dr. R. E. van Rijgersma). 



Prof. Peters long ago examined Bloch's type of Epinephelus afer and 

 found it identical with Plectropoma chloropterum. Provisionally, as 

 Bloch's fish is said to have come from West Africa, I allow Cu^'ier's 

 name to stand for the American fish. 



Epinephelus Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fisch., VH (X), 1793, p. 11 (type 

 Epinephelus afer Bloch first species) has priority over ^/p/;(\s/r6t Schnei- 

 der, Syst. Ich. Bloch, 1801, p. 236 (type Epinephelus afer Bloch first 

 species) . 

 Epinephelus lightfooti ?p. nov. Fig. 3. 



Head 2^; depth 2|; D. XI, 18, i; A. Ill, 9, i; P. i, 16; V. 1,5; scales 

 about 70 in lateral line to base of caudal, and about 10 more rather 

 enlarged on latter; 12 scales in a vertical series between origin of 

 rayed dorsal and lateral line; 26 scales in a vertical series between 

 origin of spinous anal and lateral line; pores about 61 in lateral line to 

 base of caudal and about 5 more on latter ; width of head 2^ in its length ; 

 depth of head over posterior margin of orbit 1|; mandible 2; third 

 dorsal spine 2^; third dorsal ray 2^; third anal spine 2|; third anal ray 

 2 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 3f ; caudal 1| ; pectoral 1^ ; ventral 1| ; 

 snout 5* in head measured from tip of upper jaw; eye 4; maxillary 2j; 

 interorbital space 8. 



Body elongate, compressed, rather ellipsoid, with evenly convergent 

 convex profiles both in front and behind, back a little elevated and 

 greatest depth about base of fourth dorsal spine. Edges of body 

 rounded. Caudal peduncle compressed, and its length about L} 

 in its least depth. 



Head compressed, rather elongate, upper profile nearly straight to 

 predorsal region and a trifle more inclined than lower. Snout convex, 



