222 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION. 
Berycide. 
32. Myripristis parvidens, C.& V. 
Seychelles Group, Coetivy. 
33. Holocentrum diadema, Lacep. 
Maldives. 
34. Holocentrum rubrum, Forsk. 
Seychelles Group, Amirante. 
Serranide. 
35. EHpinephelus argus, Bl. Schn. 
Maldives. 
36. Lpinephelus merra, Bl. 
Maldives. 
37. Epinephelus fasciatus, Forsk. 
Seychelles Group, Coetivy. 
38. Epinephelus chlorostigma, C. & V. 
Cargados Carajos, 20 to 30 fathoms. 
39. Hpinephelus sexfasciatus, C. & V. 
Maldives, Haddumati, 35 fathoms. 
40, Anthias coopert, Regan. (Plate 24. fig. 4.) 
Faun. & Geogr. Mald. & Lacead. Archipel. i. pt. 3, p. 273 (1902). 
Depth of body 24 to 8 in the length, length of head 384 to 33. Snout scaly, convex, 
shorter than or nearly as long as eye, the diameter of which is 3 (young) or 4 (adult) 
in the length of head and nearly equal to the interorbital width; lower jaw slightly 
projecting, scaly; maxillary scaly, extending to below middle (young) or posterior edge 
(adult) of eye, the width of its distal extremity, in the adult, { to § the diameter of eye; 
serree of preopercle enlarged at angle, especially in the young; sub- and interopercle 
serrated in the young, the serre wholly or partly obsolete in the adult ; three opercular — 
spines. 26 to 30 gill-rakers on the lower part of the anterior arch. 50 to 52 scales in 
a longitudinal series, 47 to 49 in the lateral line, 4 between middle dorsal spines and 
lateral line. Dorsal X 15-16, originating above the opercular cleft, the spines 
subequal from the fourth, which is 4 (adult) or $ (young) the length of head and 
considerably shorter than the soft rays; base scaly. Anal III 7; second and third 
spines subequal. Pectoral as long as or a little longer than the head; outer ray of 
ventral more or less produced in the adult. Caudal crescentically emarginate, with the 
