76 BULLETIN <IK THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



111. Epinephelus niaculatus (Bloch). 



Two liiic spcciiiK'Hs riom .S;iii Faliiiiii (no. 3224 and 3225: Icngdi 4.5 and S.5 in.). 



Holocenlrus manilatus Hindi. Ichth.. IV, <M\ pi. ccxLU. fig. .!. IT'.iT. 

 Epinephelus miiculatux, Bonlengpr. ('ut.. i, 211. 



112. Cephalopholis pachycentron (("nvicr ct Valenciennes). 



Three specimens from Bacon (no. 33S5, 3381), and .3.S5(J: length 5.5 to 5.75 in.). 



Dorsal IX, 15; anal in. 8; scales 80. The specimens are without light margin to fins and the ventrals 

 extend to vent; otherwi.se they agree with the descriptions. 



Serranus paehtieenlron Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. I'oiss., ii, 219 (2!l5i, 1.S28 (type no. 74,'i2, Paris Museum). 

 Epinephelus paehij centrum. Boulenger. Cat., i. 17S. 



1 13. Cephalopholis kendalli Evermanii <.t Scale, new .species. 



Head 2.66 in length: dc|)th 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, 16: anal Tii, 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 eye: mouth large, lower jaw slightly pro- 



FiG' 11. — Cephalopholis kendalli Kverinann &. Scale, 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 depre.ssible; 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, finelj- 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 line ctenoid scales; head and nuchal region with cycloid scales: ma.xillary 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 ventrals; 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. 



