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111. Epinephelus maculatus (Bloch). 



Two fine specimens from San Fabian (no. 3224 and 3225; length 1.5 and 8.5 in.). 



Haloeentrus mat ulatua Bloch. Ichth., iv, 96, pi. ccxui, fig. 3, 1797. 

 Epinephelus macvlatus, Boulenger, Cat., i. 211. 



112. Cephalopholis pachycentron (Cuvier i Valenciennes). 



Three specimens from Bacon (no. 3385, 3386, and 3850; length 5.5 to .5.7.5 in.). 



Dorsal ix, 1.5; anal m, s : scales SO. The specimens are without light margin to fins and the ventrals 

 extend to vent; otherwise they agree with the descriptions. 



Serranus pat hycentron Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n. 219 (295), 1828 (type no. 7432, l\iris Museum). 

 phelus pachycentrum Boulenger, Cat., i. its 



113. Cephalopholis kendalli Evermann & Seale, new species. 



Head 2.66 in length; depth 2.85; eye 6.3 in head; snout 4.75: interorbital 7.5; maxillary 2.1, its distal 

 end reaching beyond orbit, the distal width of maxillary 1.1 in orbit; dorsal ix, Hi: anal m. 8; scales about 

 20 80 22, 45 pores. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed: depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head: anterior profile evenly curved 

 from origin of dorsal to snout, slightly concave before and behind eve: mouth large, lower jaw slightly pro- 



r.r,/*- 



Fig- 11.— Cephalopholis kendalli Evermann *& Seale, new species. Type 



jecting; several bands of sharp teeth in each jaw with a single curved canine on each side anteriorly, the inner 

 teeth largest and depressible; teeth on vomer and palatines; gillrakers sharp, their inner surface spinulose, 

 9 developed on lower limb, the longest 2 in orbit : margin of preopercle rounded, finely denticulate, the dentic- 

 ulations scarcely enlarged at angle; opercle with 3 distinct spines, the upper one more distant from center 

 one and slightly more posterior than lower: opercular membrane very obtusely rounded, the upper margin 

 concave. 



Body covered with fine ctenoid scales; head and nuchal region with cycloid scales; maxillary scaled, the 

 scales on nuchal region and top of head very fine, about 80 in series in front of dorsal; origin of dorsal above 

 base of pectoral, the spines increasing in length posteriorly, the second spine 1.35 in ninth, the first 2.5 in 

 ninth: rays of soft dorsal much longer than spines, the longest ray 2.5 in head; second anal spine longest, 

 3 in head: longest anal ray 2 in head; origin of anal nearer to base of caudal than to origin of vent rals: pectoral 

 1.5 in head, tip extending slightly posterior to vent, but not reaching a line with origin of anal fin: ventrals 2 

 in head, their origin midway between tip of snout and base of sixth anal ray. their tips reaching to, but not 

 beyond, vent: caudal rounded. 1.75 in head. 



