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SERRANIDAE. 
Acanthistius cinctus (GinTHER). 
BouLENGER, Cat. 1895, 1, p. 142, pl. 1. 
Plectropoma cinctum, GUNTHER, Cat. 1859, 1, p. 162, pl. 13, fig. A. 
. ~13- 
One specimen 57¢ inches long from Easter Island, shore. 
Trachypoma macracanthum GinTHER. 
Cat. 1859, 1, p. 167. Bouxencer, Cat. 1895, 1, p. 146, pl. 2. 
Two specimens, No. 3173, M. C. Z. 2965, 73 inches long and No. 3174, 8% 
inches long from Cook Bay, Easter Island. 
No. 3173 has head 2.31 in length without caudal; depth 2.55; eye 3.6 
in head; snout 4.8; 5th dorsal spine longest, 2.32 in head; 2nd anal spine longest, 
strong, and stout, 2.25 in head; dorsal XII, 14; anal III, 6. 
Many of the scales are ciliated but only a few are ciliated in No. 3174, the 
latter specimen agrees in other particulars with No. 3173. 
No. 3173, was in life, brilliant orange, splotched with lighter shades; dark 
spots in centre of margin of soft dorsal; small white spots over body; branchio- 
stegal membranes with brassy shades, the extended central margin of caudal 
brown, rest of margin darker. 
Petrometopon panamensis (STEINDACHNER). 
Jorpan & EveRMANN, Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt. 1, p. 1141. 
Serranus panamensis STEINDACHNER, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1875, 72, p. 551 (Beitrage, 4, p. 1), 
taf. 1, fig. 1. 
Three specimens from Panama, No. 3127, 93, 3146, M. C. Z. 29681, 95, 
3147, M. C. Z. 29659, 72 inches long. 
Three specimens from Acapulco, No. 3332, 102, 3333, 93, 3339, M. C. Z. 
29633, 102 inches long. 
Three specimens 42 to 62 inches long from Toboguilla Island, from coral 
in two fathoms of water. M. C. Z. 29574 (1 specimen). 
Epinephelus analogus GIL. 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1863, p. 163. Gritpert & SrarKs, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 96. 
Two specimens, Nos. 3114 and 3143, M. C. Z. 29649, 12} and 93 inches long 
from Panama. 
The round dark spots are not confined to the cross-bands, as described by 
Gilbert and Starks, there being a single cross-series on each interspace. Our 
specimens show distinctly only four cross-bands. 
