36 Fishes of the South Pacific 



a white line obliquely clown forward from the eye; some slight 

 white dots on chin; eye golden; fins pinkish, without spots. 



Bpinephelus paehyeentrus (Cuvier & Valenciennes . 



Two specimens, Nos. 1168 and 1 169 B. M., from Shortland 

 Id.. Solomons. 



Color in life is brown, with small blue dots on head; fins all 

 dusky. 



Bpinephelus daemelii (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. 



Bpinephelus caeruleopunctatus (Bloch). 



Two specimens, Xos. 1 157 and 1247 B. M., from Shortland 

 Id., Solomons. 



Bpinephelus fasciatus (Schlegel). 



Depth 3.50; head 2.34; eye 5.10; interorbital equal to eye. 

 Teeth in bauds, 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. 840* B. M., length 6.50 in. 



Bpinephelus zapyrus Scale, new species. 



Depth 3.50; head with opercular flap 2.30; eye 6.20 in snout; 

 D. xi, 16; A. in, 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 T ; 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, 



