28 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL. 62, 
in head from upper jaw tip; eye, about 43 to 44; maxillary, 24 to 22; 
interorbital, 62 to 8. Rakers v1, 2+10, v, lanceolate, equal filaments, 
or 23 in eye. Teeth triserial along middle of lower jaw laterally. 
Preopercle edge finely serrate. Scales with 4 or 5 basal radiating 
striae, moderately numerous apical denticles rather slender, and cir- 
culi rather coarse. Maxillary half scaled apically above. Caudal 
rounded. Color in alcohol back gray-brown, belly and under sur- 
face pale to light brownish-drab. Above and on sides many small 
crowded and mostly rounded gray-white spots or bars, often broken 
and irregular, much smaller on head. Under surface of head, breast 
and belly nearly uniform. Fins dusky, with many minute pale or 
gray-white crowded dots and spots. Edges of soft dorsal, anal and 
.caudal narrowly whitish. Length, 245 to 252 mm. Two from Zam- 
boanga. 
EPINEPHELUS FUSCOGUTTATUS (Forskil). 
Head, 24; depth, 3; D. XI, 14,1; A. ITI, 8, 1; scales, 104 in Jat- 
eral line to caudal base, tubular scales about 55 and about 8 more 
on caudal basally; 16 scales above lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 
35 below to spinous anal origin; 82 predorsal scales; snout 43 in head 
from upper jaw tip; eye, 62; maxillary, 2; interorbital, 62. Giull- 
rakers ut, 3-+-10, vir, lanceolate, three-fourths of filaments, which 132 
in eye. Mandible with 3 lateral series of teeth. Preopercle edge 
finely serrated. Scales with 6 to 9 basal radiating striae, often 2 or 
3 more auxiliaries, small weak apical denticles clustered as little patch 
subapically, and circuli rather coarse. Maxillary with upper half 
of apical expansion finely scaled. Caudal rounded. Color in alcohol 
with back warm sepia with deeper to dusky-brown marblings. Two 
dark or dusky predorsal blotches, four at dorsal base and black sad- 
dle on middle of caudal peduncle above. Four transverse dark-brown 
blotches across mandible. Body most everywhere with small ill- 
defined dark spots, crowded and numerous on head. Dark blotches 
along dorsal base extending up on fin. Spinous dorsal with margin 
of each membrane blackish. Soft dorsal, anal, and caudal and paired 
fins with large deep brown blotches, more or less as transverse rows. 
Length, 218 mm. One from Cebu. 
EPINEPHELUS MERBA Bloch. 
One from Zamboanga, 78 mm. long. Two rows of teeth along 
each side of lower jaw. Gill-rakers, v, 3-++11, 1v, lanceolate, longer 
than filaments, or 24 in eye. No maxillary scales. Color in alcohol, 
body with large deep rounded dusky spots, nearly large as eye, 
smaller on fins and under surface of head. Narrow interspaces or 
reticulations pale or whitish, especially on under surface of body. 
