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111. Epinephelus maculatus (Bloch). 



Two fine speiiiiicns from San Fabian (no. 3224 and 322.5; lengtfi 4.5 and 8.5 in.). 



Holocenlrus maculatus Bloch, Iclith., iv, 96, pi. ccxui, flg. 3, 1797. 

 Epinephelus maculatus, Boulenger, Cat., i, 211. 



112. Cephalopholis pachycentron (Cuvier & ^'alenciennes) . 



Three specimens from Bacon (no. .33S5. 33.S(i, and .3So(l: length 5.5 to 5.75 in.). 



Dorsal i.x, 15; anal in, S; scales s(l. The specimens are without light margin to fins and the ^•cntrals 

 extend to vent; otherwise they agree with the descriptions. 



Serranus pachycentron Cuvier & Valoneiermes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n, 219 (2951, isjs (type no. 7432, Paris Museum). 

 Epinephelus pa< hit centrum, Boulenger, Cat., i, 17S. 



113. Cephalopholis kendaUi Evermann & Seale, new species. 



Head 2.66 in length; depth 2.85; eye 6.3 in head; snout 4.75; interorbital 7.5; maxillary 2.1, its di.stal 

 end reaching bcvond orbit, the distal width of maxillary 1.1 in orbit; dorsal ix, 16; anal iii, 8; scales about 

 20-80-22, 45 pores. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed; depth of caudal peduncle 3 in head: anterior profile evenly curved 

 from origin of dorsal to snout, slightly concave before and behind eye; mouth large, lower jaw slightly pro- 



FiG- II - Ccplialopholis kendalli Evcrinam & Seale, new species. Type 



jecting; several bands of sharp teeth in each jaw with a single curved canine on each side anteriorly, the inner 

 teeth largest and depressible; teeth on vomer and palatines; gillrakers sharp, their inner surface spinulose, 

 9 developed on lower limb, the longest 2 in orbit; margin of preopercle rounded, finely denticulatt', the dentic- 

 ulations scarcely enlarged at angle; opercle with 3 distinct spines, the upper one more distant from center 

 one and slightly more posterior than lower; opercular membrane veiy obtusely rounded, the upper margin 

 concaAc. 



Body covered with fine ctenoid scales; head and nuchal region with cycloid scales; maxillary scaled, the 

 scales on nuchal region and top of head very fine, about 80 in series in front of dorsal; origin of dorsal above 

 base of pi'ctoral, the spines increasing in length posteriorly, the second spine 1.35 in ninth, the first 2,5 in 

 ninth; rays of soft dorsal much longer than spines, the longest ray 2.5 in head; second anal spine longest, 

 3 in head; longest anal ray 2 in head; origin of anal nearer to base of caudal than to origin of vcntrals; pectoral 

 1.5 in head, tip extending slightly posterior to vent, but not reaching a line with origin of anal fin; ventrals 2 

 in head, their origin midway between tip of snout and base of sixth anal ray, their tips reaching to, but not 

 beyond, vent; caudal rounded, 1.75 in head. 



