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EPINEPHELDS URODELUS, {Forst.) Bleeker [No. 19241]. 



Perca urodela, Fokster, Descr. Anim., ed. Light., 1844, 221. 



Serranus urodelus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., ii, 1828, 306 ; vi, 1830, 513. — 



Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., vii, 1854, Kokos-eil., 39. — Gunther, Cat. 



Fish., i, 1859, 122 ; Jour. Mus. Godeflf., ii, 1873, Fische der Sudsee, i, p. 3, 



pi. 3, f. A. 



D -^. A A.. 



"' 14-15 ^' 8-9 



Uniform brown (in spirits). The posterior part of the dorsal and anal, 

 and caudal fins, with white spots; a narrow black margin to the soft 

 dorsal and anal, and a submarginal band of white j caudal with two 

 oblique white lines, converging posteriorly. 



Locality : Fanning Islands. 



EPINEPHELUS AEGUS, {Bl. Schn.) BleeJcer [So. 19242]. 



Bodianus guttatus, Bloch, Ausliiud. Fische, vii, 1797, pi. 224.— Bloch, Syst. Iclith., ed. 



Schn., 1801, 330. 

 Ce2}haloj}Jiolis argus, Bloch, Syst. lohth., ed. Schn., 311, pi. 61. 

 Serranus myriaster, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., ii, 1828, 365. — Euppell, Atlas 



Fische, 1828, 107, pi. 27, f. 1.— Lesson, Voy. Coq. Poiss., 1830, pi. 37. 

 Serranus argus, Cuv. & Val., op. cit., ii, 1826, 360.— Gunther, Cat. Fish., i, 1859, 115. 

 Serranus guttatus, Peters, Arch. f. Naturg., 1855, i, 235. — Gunther, op. cit., i, 1859, 



119; Jour. Mus. Gcdeff., ii, 1»73, Fische der Sudsee, 1, 5, pi. 4. (nonCuv. & 



Val.) 



- 15-16* ^- 9* 



Brownish-black ; head, body and, fins covered with round blue black- 

 edged spots ; more or less distinctly-marked transverse bars across the 

 posterior portion of the body; the soft portion of the dorsal, the anal, 

 the pectoral, and the caudal fi,ns with narrow white margins ; the upper 

 half of the membrane, between the dorsal spines, light colored. 



Locality : Christmas Island. 



The name guttatus cannot be retained for this species, as an Atlantic 

 species, the Perca guttata, Gmelin {=Epineplielus guttatus, Goode), has 

 a prior claim to it. 



