1186 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



1575. MYCTEROPERCA VENADORUM, Jordan & Starks. 

 (GARLOPA.) 



Head 3fc iu length; depth Sir. D. XT, 16; A. Ill, 11; scales small, 

 smoothish, about 130. Snout 3 in head; maxillary 2; eye 8. Gill rakers 

 3 -f- 8; pectorals l-j y -; fourth dorsal spine 3|; longest dorsal rays 3; longest 

 anal ray 2| ; caudal lobe If. Ventrals 2J, measured to bony opercle. 

 Body robust, not strongly compressed, the head large. Lower jaw much 

 projecting. Posterior nostril 3 times diameter of anterior. Preopercle 

 scarcely notched, its angle scarcely salient, its teeth a little enlarged. 

 Gill rakers short, thick, few in number. Dorsal deep-notched, second 

 spine a little lower than the fourth ; soft dorsal high, slightly angulated ; 

 anal very high, with exserted rays; caudal well forked, lobes unequal. 

 Color: Olive brown, almost uniform, no spots or bands; dorsal, anal, 

 and caudal with broad black margin narrowly edged with whitish ; pec- 

 toral and ventral darker behind ; pectoral with pale edge. Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia; not rare about rocky islands. The type, a specimen from the 

 Venados Islands, weighing in life 75 pounds, has been sent as a skin to 

 the British Museum. Its length was 40 inches to base of caudal fin. The 

 species reaches a weight of 150 pounds, and is a food-fish of importance. 

 (Name from the Venados Islands near Mazatlan ; Venado, hunted, the 

 Spanish name of the deer, Mazatlan being the Indian equivalent of the 

 same word.) 



Mycteroperca venadorum, JORDAN & STARKS, Fishes of Sinaloa, in Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1895, 446, 

 Venados Islands. (Coll. Hopkins Exp. Type in British Museum.) 



1576. MYCTEROPERCA CALLIURA, Poey. 



Head 3 ; depth 3. D. XI, 16 ; A. Ill, 11 ; scales 90 to 100 ; eye 5 in 

 head ; snout 4f. Body rather deep and compressed ; preopercle with 

 salient angle ; gill rakers x -f- 12 ; nostrils as in M. tigris, the posterior 

 considerably the larger, the two close together, the larger with an interior 

 horizontal cross partition at base ; anal scarcely angulate. Pyloric 

 coeca 12, large and firm. Color in spirits, brownish everywhere, with 

 grayish reticulations around small brown spots, these not larger than 

 pupil and not evident on head; fins all edged with dusky. According 

 to Poey the color is dark brownish olive, with rounded spots of yellow- 

 ish, obscure in some specimens ; lips yellowish ; iris olive ; fins dark 

 brown, darker on the edges of the vertical fins, with a pale edge along 

 the soft dorsal and anal; 8 narrow dusky cross bands, which disappear 

 after death. Caudal Avith a beautiful green cross band, preceding the 

 denticulations of its extremity. The pectoral toward the center is yellow- 

 ish, followed by a dark color coming from the coloration of the rays ; all 

 the posterior margin is green. Length 1-J feet. Coast of Cuba; very 

 rare; here described from No. 10011, M. C. Z., 14 inches long, apparently 

 one of Poey's types. (a/l/lof, beauty ; ovpd, tail.) 



Mycteroperca calliura, POEY, Repertorio, I, 181, 309, 1867, Cuba; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c.,368, 



1890. 



Trlsotropis calliurus, POEY, Synopsis, 284, 1868; JORDAN <fc SWAIN, I. c., 366, 1884. 

 Epinephelus calliums, BOULENGER, Cat., i, 264. 



