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covering posterior half of caudal peduncle; all bands extending some 

 distance into dorsal membranes; dorsal and caudal indistinctly 

 barred or mottled, with broad paler margins; anal, ventrals, and 

 pectorals blackish. 



This species is here described from two specimens 8^ inches long, 

 and one 15 inches, from Takao, Formosa. We have no specimens 

 from Japan, where it is apparently rare. 



The specimens from Takao, Formosa, which are here called Epi- 

 nephdus awoara, are well distinguishetl from specimens of Ejn- 

 nephelus sexfasciatus from Sumatra by the different coloration of 

 the dorsal and caudal. Cross bands are saitl by Temminck and 

 Schlegel to be present on the body of S. awoara after death. Faint 

 light spots are apparent on head and parts of body of our largest 

 specimen from Formosa (15 inches). Dr. Hans Sauter, the collector, 

 states that the color in life is ''light brown, under parts suffused 



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Fig. 12.— Epinephelus awoara. 



with yellow; fins gray, with yellow borders." We have seen no 

 specimens from Japan or elsewhere which seem to correspond with 

 the Epinephelus awoara of Boulenger (skin 38 cm. long, from China) 

 C^ S. awoara of Kner, specimens fn^n Singapore), a species with the 

 fins yellow edged and with 3 rows of teeth in sides of lower jaws. 

 Body bands are not said by either Kner or Boulenger to be present 

 in the specimens. 



(ao, blue-green; ara, bass.) 



21. EPINEPHELUS SEPTEMFASCIATUS (Thunberg). 

 HAKAMA" ARA (coat-skirt bass). 



Perca septemfasciata Thunberg, Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockholm, vol. 14, 1793, 



p. 56, pi. 1 (Nagasaki). 

 Plectropoma susuki Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, 



p. 404 (Japan). — Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Pise, 1842, p. 11, pi. 



« Hakama is the skirt of a garment like a coat, worn by men in Japan. 



