1152 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Subgenus EPINEPHELUS. 

 1546. EPINEPHELUS ANALOGUS, Gill. 



(CABRILLA PINTA.) 



Head 2f to 3 ; depth 3 to 3i ; eye rather large, 5f in head. D. X, 17; 

 A. Ill, 8 ; scales 14-110 to 120-40, pores 70 to 73. Body oblong, rather 

 robust. Head moderately acute, the anterior profile straight from tip of 

 snout to above eye, thence moderately convex ; snout short, 4f in head. 

 Mouth large, oblique, the maxillary reaching to beyond eye. its length 2J in 

 head. Maxillary naked. Lower jaw strongly projecting. Canine teeth 

 s hort, those of lower jaw small. Interorbital space gently convex, its width 

 7| in head. Nostrils round, subequal. Preopercle well serrate, its outline 

 strongly convex, without distinct emargination. Gill rakers moderate, 

 about as long as gill fringes, 17 or 18 below angle of arch. Scales moder- 

 ate, rather strongly ctenoid, mostly cycloid above. Dorsal spines rather 

 strong, the third and fourth subequal, 3i in head; caudal fin slightly 

 rounded, 1-^j- in head ; anal high, its longest ray 2f in head. Second anal 

 stronger than third, but rather shorter, 5 in head ; pectorals reaching 

 beyond tips of ventrals, \\ in head ; ventrals shortish, not reaching vent. 

 Color in spirits: Brown, clouded with darker and with faint dusky cross 

 bars ; body and fins everywhere covered with roundish dark-brown spots 

 larger and fewer below, smallest and most numerous on the fins, and 

 everywhere very distinct ; soft dorsal with 3, spinous dorsal with about 2 

 rows of dark spots. In life, orange brown on an olivaceous ground, as in 

 E. adscensionis, to which species, as the name indicates, this fish is 

 extremely analogous. No distinct dusky edgings to fins ; no evident dark 

 blotches along base of dorsal. Length 1 foot. Pacific Coast of tropical 

 America ; common on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Here described from 

 No. 4944, U. S. Nat. Mus., from Panama, (analogus, similar ; its form and 

 coloration resembling those of Epinephelus adscensionis, ) 



Epinephelus analogus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 163, Panama, (Coll. Dow), JORDAN 



& SWAIN, I. c., 393, 1884; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 354, 1890. 

 Sen-anus courtadei, BocotTRT, Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, 222,1868, La Union, San Salvador. (Ooll. 



Bocourt.) 



1547. EPINEPHELUS ADSCENSIONIS (Osbeck). 

 (BocK HIND; GABRA MORA.) 



Head 2| j depth 3; eye moderate, 6 in head. D. XI, 17; A. Ill, 7, or III, 

 8; scales 12-90 to 110-40, pores 55 or 60. Body comparatively robust, 

 little compressed, the greatest thickness 2 in depth. Head subconic, 

 acute, its anterior profile straight from tip of snout to nape, thence 

 slightly gibbous. Mouth rather large, the maxillary reaching rather 

 beyond the eye, 2 in head. Lower jaw rather strongly projecting, more 

 prominent than in any other of our species. Teeth in rather broad 

 bands, the canines short and stout, those of the lower jaw larger than 

 those of the upper. Interorbital space flattish, not very narrow, its 

 width 6 in head. Nostrils subequal, roundish. Preopercle finely ser- 

 rate, its outline strongly convex, with a very slight emargination. Gill 



