Ko. 1714. JAPANESE SEA BASS.— JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. 457 



20. EPINEPHELUS AWOARA (Temminck and Schlegel). 

 AOARA (green bass). 



Serranus awoaraT^MumcK and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Pise, 1842, p. 9, pi. 3, 

 fig. 2 (Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 231 (Nagasaki, speci- 

 men of Burger, British Museum). — Gunther, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1859, p. 150 

 (China). — Nystromo Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 13, Afd. 4, No. 4, 

 1887, p. 6 (Nagasaki).— N AMI YE, Class. Cat., 1881, p. 93 (Tokyo market).— 

 IsHiKAWA, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 56 (Tokyo). — Kner, Novara Fische, vol. 1, 

 1865, p. 26 (Singapore). 



Epinephelus awoara Boulenger, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1895, p. 230 (China). — 

 Bleeker, Atlas, vol. 7, 1876, p. 59 (after Kner, above). — ^Jordan and Rich- 

 ardson, Mem. Carnegie Museum, vol. 4, 1909, p. 183 (Takao, Formosa). 



Serranus diacanthus Steindachner and Doderlein, Beitr. Japan, vol. 1, 1883, 

 p. 231 (Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hongkong). (Not Serranus diacanthus Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes.) D XI, 15; "hintere Rand der Caudal uud obere Rand 

 der Gliederstrahlen der Dorsale breit hell gesaumt, und iilinlich gefarbte 

 (hell blaugraue?) runde Flecken liegen an den Seiten des Kopfes." -5 

 oblique transversal bands on body; teeth not described. (Steindacher.) 



(Coasts of southern Japan and China, not common.) 

 Head 2.60; depth 3.30; eye m head 4.40, in maxillaiy 2.30; 

 dorsal XI, 16; anal III, 8; scales 18-94-38. Nose 3.9 in head; 

 maxillary slightly short of back of orbit, 2 in head, 1.25 in pectoral; 

 interorbital space 1.37 in eye, convex. Back low; profile broadly 

 convex as far as forehead, whence the descent becomes steeper; a 

 slight depression over nostrils; muzzle rather blunt; lower jaw 

 projecting width of lip. Teeth in sides of lower jaws in two rows; 

 canines moderate; posterior nostril slightly the larger; preopercular 

 angle scarcely produced, furnished with 2 or 3 moderately strong 

 points; point of opercular flap directed upward, much nearer lateral 

 line than base of pectoral; gill-rakers 12+3. Cheeks, opercles, 

 lower jaw, and chin scaled with fine scales; maxillary smooth. 

 Dorsal originating over pectoral; longest dorsal spine (3rd) 2.8 in 

 head; longest soft ray 1.9 in base; caudal rounded; pectoral 1.65 

 in head; ventral 1.75. 



Color in spirits purplish brown, each side crossed with 5 broad 

 blackish stripes; first stripe descending vertically from between 

 second and fifth dorsal spines; second originating between sixth 

 and tenth spines and descending obliquely backward to middle of 

 side and then swinging obliquely forward, broader than the other 

 stripes and tending to spread apart as a double stripe on lower half 

 of side; third band originating between eleventh spine and middle 

 of soft dorsal and descending in a slightly obliquely backward direc- 

 tion; fourth band beginning behind middle of soft dorsal and de- 

 scending obliquely backward, becoming broader below; fifth band 



« Made a synonym of Epinephehis sexfasciattts Ctivier and Valenciennes, by Doctor 

 Boulenger. 



