NO. 1714. JAPANESiE SEA BA88.— .JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. 



453 



pattern in Schlegel's account with Day's description of Serranus gram- 

 micus leaves little doubt of the identity of their specimens. 

 (latus, broad; fascia, band.) 



17. EPINEPHELUS EPISTICTUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Serranus epistictus Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Pise, 1842, p. 8 

 (Nagasaki). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen., vol. 26, no. 4, 1855, p. 60, pi. 2, 



fig. 1. 

 Serranus epistictus Bleeker, Nieuwe Nalez. Japan, 1857, p. CO (Nagasaki). (D. 



XI, 14 or 15.) 

 Epinephelus epistictus Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1906, p. 468 



(Kochi). 



(Coasts of southern Japan.) 



Head 2.6; depth 3.2,; eye 4 in head, 2.2 in maxillary; dorsal XI, 

 15; anal III, 8; scales 13-108 to 120-44; nose 4 in head; maxillary 

 scarcely to back of orbit, 1.95 in head, 1.2 in pectoral; interorbital 



Fig. 10. — Epinephelus epistictus. 



space nearly flat, slightly convex, 1.25 in eye. Back moderately 

 elevated, profile convex, a slight depression over eye; snout moder- 

 ately pointed; lower jaw scarcely projecting. Teeth in sides of 

 lower jaw in two rows; canines moderate; posterior nostril not 

 enlarged; angle of preoperculum moderately salient, armed with 

 two conspicuous points, directed backward and downward ( = half 

 width of pupil in specimen 4 J inches long) ; opercular spines nearly 

 equidistant, upper spine noticeably shorter and blunter than lower; 

 gill-rakers 10 + 4 rudiments. Top of head, cheeks, operclcs, and 

 suborbitals covered with fine scales. Dorsal beginning over origin 

 of pectoral; longest dorsal spine 3 in head; longest soft ray 1.4 in 

 base of soft fin; caudal rounded; pectorals 1.6 in head; ventrals 2. 

 Color in spirits purpHsh brown, each side with three rows of black 

 spots; a median row which consists of spots broader than those in 

 upper and lower rows, extending from lower edge of orbit across 



