36 Fishes of the South Pacific. 
a white line obliquely down forward from the eye; some slight 
white dots on chin; eye golden; fins pinkish, without spots. 
Epinephelus pachycentrus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 
Two specimens, Nos. 1168 and 1169 B. M., from Shortland 
Id., Solomons. 
Color in life is brown, with small blue dots on head; fins all 
dusky. 
Epinephelus demelii (Gunther). 
Two specimens, Nos. 1163 and 1285 B. M., from Shortland 
Id., Solomons. 
Color in life, dark brown, covered with hexagonal lines and 
spots; a deep bluish-black spot on top of caudal peduncle. 
Epinephelus czeruleopunctatus (Bloch). 
Two specimens, Nos. 1157 and 1247 B. M., from Shortland 
Id., Solomons. 
Epinephelus fasciatus (Schlegel). 
Depth 3.50; head 2.34; eye 5.10; interorbital equal to eye. 
Teeth in bands, the four anterior ones of each jaw enlarged. 
Color red, with small bluish white dots; dorsal with a broad 
tip of black; a deep red ring about eye. In spirits the white dots 
disappear. 
Four specimens were secured from Mangareva Id. No. 821 
B. M., length 11.50 in. No. 822 B.M., length 10 in. No. 839 
B. M., length 7:75 in. No, 8407.8. M;, length: 6.so am: 
Epinephelus zapyrus Seale, new species. 
Depth 3.50; head with opercular flap 2.30; eye 6.20 in snout; 
D. x1, 16; A. 111, 8; scales small, 17-100-36; interorbital flat, slightly 
less than eye, equal to length of first dorsal spine, 7.50 in head. 
Body elongate, compressed; head compressed, rather blunt, 
the lower jaw slightly the longest; mouth big, maxillary with a 
small supplemental bone; premaxillary 2.75 in head, their posterior 
margin reaching to below anterior margin of eye; lower mandible 
2 in head; nostrils conspicuous, a membranous flap over the lower 
opening; on the upper part of the snout, midway between the pairs 
of nostrils are two grooves; bands of fine short teeth in jaws, vomer 
and palatines, the outer ones slightly enlarged, the inner ones de- 
pressible; two small canines in each jaw; sphenoid and basi ptera- 
goid also armed with fine teeth; gill-rakers rather strong, 13 on 
lower limb, their inner side with clusters of short sharp teeth; 
opercles scaled, and having a long flap and three flat spines from 
posterior part, the upper spine minute, the middle one prominent; 
posterior margin of preopercles serrate; cheeks minutely scaled; 
dorsal fin continuous, not notched, the rays longer than the spines, 
