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TELEOSTEI. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



ornamented with round, black, white-edged spots, those on the 

 body, dorsal, and caudal fins being the largest. 



Fig. 14Q.Cromileptes altivelis. 



Hab. Seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and China; 

 attaining two feet or more in length. 



3. Genus SERRANUS, Cuv. 



Syn. Epinephe!us,si).,~Bloch; Cephalopholis,8ip.,'B\. Schn.; Parasaranus 

 and Serranichthys, Blkr. ; Labroperca, Mycteroperca, Bodianus, Ennea- 

 centnw, Petrometopon, Promicrops, Schistorus, and Menephorus, G ill ; 

 Prospinus, Poey ; Alphestes, Dermatolepis, Jordan & Swain. 



Cullawah, Tamil. 



Brachiostegals seven. Preopercle with its hinder margin more 

 or less serrated, its lower edge generally entire ; opercle with two 



Fig. 141. Head of young Serramis latifasdatus, from an individual 

 1 '6 inch long, showing preopercular spine. 



or three flat spines, that in the middle largest. Teeth villiform in 

 the jaws, voiner, and palate, the outer maxillary and the inner 



