52 Field Columbian Museum — Zoology, Vol. VII. 



Length to base of middle caudal rays 3V4 



Depth of body i Vs 



Least depth of caudal peduncle V2 



Head 1V4 



Eye %o 



Snout Vi 



Maxilla nearly to hind margin of eye. 

 Preopercle distinctly serrulate. 



Color in spirits: pale yellowish brown. A dark blotch under 

 base of second dorsal, as long as the eye, on left side, but only % as 

 long on the right. Faint trace of a smaller dark blotch on top of 

 caudal peduncle near root of caudal fin. Iris now dark bluish. The 

 body was bright rosy in life. 



CXLVI. Family ^^erraiiidie. 



110. Promicrops guttata (L.). • Jew Fish. 

 Tow.vsEND, New York Aquarium Report, 1905, 36. 



111. Bodianus fulvus (L.). Yellow Coney. 

 Barbour, Bull. M. C. Z., .xlvi, No. 7, 1905, 120. 



112. liodiafiiis fitliuis punctatus (Linnaeus). Black Coney. 



4898 No. 26. Ten miles off Ireland Id. Fish-pot. Aug. 25. 



4899 No. 867. South Shore, near Cooper's Id. Oct. 25. 



n3. Bodianus fulvus ruber (Bl. & Schn.). Red Coney. 



4900 No. 5. Hungry Bay. 2 spec. Aug. 24. 



4901 No. 355. 1% m. South of Gurnet Rock. Hook. Oct. 5. 



114. Epinephelus maculosus (C. & V.). Red Hind. 



49S2 No. 47. Ten miles off Ireland Id. Fish-pot. Aug. 31. 

 D. X, 1, 16; A. Ill, 8; scales 16-107-28; gill rakers 16 or 17 below 

 angle, the longest less than % eye, and only 6 or 7 of them differen- 

 tiated, the rest connected except at the tips. 



A few weak scales on m.-ixilln. Length to base of caudal fin, 9>^ 

 inches. 



4905 No. 550. Nonsuch liay. Seine. Sept. 29. 



A small example, ^yi, inches long to base of caudal lin, shows 

 practically the same colors in spirits as the larger individual. Head 



