1144 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



ENNEISTUS (evye'a, nine ; iaros, mast) : 



aa. Scales not ctenoid; third dorsal spine elevated; maxillary naked. 



/. Color red; a black streak on cheeks; fins all blackish on distal half. 



ACANTHISTIUS, 1544. 



1540. BODIANUS TJJNIOPS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



Head 2f- to 3 ; depth 3 to 3. D. IX, 15 ; A. Ill, 9 (rarely 10) ; scales 10 

 to 12, 125 to 130-42 to 48, pores 75 to 82. Teeth forming rather broad 

 bands, in 3 or 4 series on the sides of the mandible ; canines strong. 

 Snout li to \\ diameter of eye, which is contained 5 to 6 times in length 

 of head ; interorbital width 6 to 7 times in length of head ; lower jaw 

 projecting; maxillary extending to below posterior border of eye or 

 beyond, the width of its distal extremity equal to or a little less than 

 diameter of eye; preopercle very finely serrated, the serrae scarcely 

 enlarged at the angle, which is rounded ; middle opercular spine nearer 

 lower than upper, lower not extending so far back as upper ; opercular 

 flap obtusely pointed, its upper border strongly curved ; head covered 

 with cycloid scales ; snout and maxillary entirely or partially scaly. 

 Gill rakers 10 or 11, and 6 to 8 rudiments on lower part of anterior arch, 

 the longest longer than gill fringes. Dorsal originating above base of 

 pectoral; spines increasing in length to the third, which is about \ 

 length of head and shorter than posterior soft rays ; soft dorsal rounded ; 

 pectoral to f length of head ; ventral shorter, reaching anus or not quite 

 so far; second and third anal spines equal, as long as or a little shorter 

 than longest dorsal spine and much shorter than soft rays ; caudal 

 rounded. Scales strongly ciliated. Dark brown (or red) all over, with 

 small, blue, black-edged spots ; a blue horizontal streak below the eye ; 

 soft dorsal, anal, and caudal edged with blue. Length 1 foot. (Bou- 

 lenger.) West coast of Africa, and adjacent islands; very common; said 

 by Steindachner to stray to the coast of Florida and the Bahamas ; not 

 obtained by any American collector, (raivia, band; i/>, face.) 



Serranus tseniops, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n, 370, 1828, Cape Verde; GUNTHER, 

 Cat., I, 121, 1859; STEINDACHNER, Fische Afrikas, 1881, 4, pi. 1 ("very common on the coast 

 of Senegambia to the Cape Verde Islands and Guinea; rare on the coasts of the Bahama 

 Islands to Florida.") 



Bodianus tseniops, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 919, 1883 ; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 379, 1890. 



Enneacenlms tseniops, JORDAN & SWAIN, I. c., 402, 1884. 



Epinephelus tssniops, BOULENGER, Cat., i, 186. 



1541. BODIANUS FULVUS (Linnams). 

 ; NIGGER-FISH; YELLOW FISH; BUTTER-FISH; GUATIVERE AMARILLA.) 



Head 2 ; depth 3 ; eye large, 5 in head. D. IX, 14 to 16 ; A. Ill, 8 or 9 ; 

 scales 9-90 to 110-33, pores 53 to 65. Body oblong, moderately com- 

 pressed, its greatest width 2|- in depth. Head rather pointed anteriorly, 

 the profile forming an even curve from snout to base of dorsal. Mouth 

 moderate, the maxillary extending somewhat beyond eye, its length 2 in 

 head. Lower jaw strongly projecting. Teeth in narrow bands, rather 

 large, the depressible teeth smaller than in Petrometopon cruentatus ; canines 



