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gin; soft dorsal with a very narrow edging of white; pectoral spots 

 and interspaces paler than those of other fins. 



Of this species we have six specimens, 6 to 7 inches long, from 

 Kagoshima, collected by Prof. Jolm O. Snyder. The type is No. 64154 

 U.S.N.M. A co-type is No. 21180 Stanford University, This species 

 is distinguished from specimens of Epinephelus angularis (Bleeker) 

 from Sumatra by having the dark areas on body and fins separated 

 by much narrower "hnear" intervals; and by having the fins, includ- 

 ing soft dorsal, marked as body, the soft dorsal of the specimen from 

 Sumatra having a black longitudinal bar on outer fourth of soft dor- 

 sal. A specimen from Keerun, Formosa {Eyine'phelus areolatusf) 

 differs from both Japanese and Sumatran specimens in having its 

 caudal slightly rounded (stretched or closed) and in lacking the white 

 border on caudal, while it has all fins spotted like body, as in the 



Fig. 7.— Epinephelus ceaspedurus. 



Japanese species, and has the dark areas separated by wide pale 

 intervals as in Epinephelus angularis from Sumatra. The Perca 

 areolata of Forskal, of wiiich S. angularis Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 and E. celebicus Bleeker are made synonyms by Doctor Boulenger is 

 apparently best regarded as a distinct species (=S. areolatus of Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes, Giinther and Day = Z?. areolatus Sauvage=*S'. areo- 

 latus Klunzinger 1884 (not 1870) =S. celehicus Klunzinger 1870). 

 This species (Epinephelus areolatus) has not been found in Japan. 

 {KpdaTzsdujv , border; oupd, tail.) 



13. EPINEPHELUS MEGACHIR (Richardson). 



Serranus areolatus ja-ponicus Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japan., Pise, 

 1842, p. 8 (Japan). (Not Epinephelus japonicus Rrusenstern.) 



Serranus megachir Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 230 (Canton, Chinaj. 



Serranus merra (not Bloch) Day, Fish. India, 1875, p. 13, pi. 2, fig. 2 (Anda- 

 mans). (Though so stated by Day, this is certainly not the Epinejihelus 



