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ages. The pectorals have an orange border, not distinct in the young 

 ones. The extent and intensity of the red color is proportioned to the 

 depth of the waters it frequents. The preopercle is rounded and finely 

 denticulated. 



It attains a weight of 25 pounds. Is found, according to M. 

 Valenciennes, at St. Domingo and St. Bartholomew. Popular 

 ñame in Havana, Bonaci cardenal. 



Schneider knew this species only through the text and figure 

 of Parra ; and although the ñame of guttatus has the priority, it 

 cannot be preserved because at the time Valenciennes was writing 

 there wasanother Serranus which Linnseus, and also Bloch, had 

 named Perca guttata, which is now the Peí rometopon guttatus, 

 same as Serranus coronatus, Val., of which the S. nigriculus is 

 only a darker variety. There was also the Bodianus guttatus, 

 Bloch, from the East Indies, which is the Epinejphelus argus, 

 Bl., Syst., and the Oephalopholis argus, Schneider, the same, ac- 

 cording to Dr. Günther, as the Serranus myriaster, Val. There 

 was, besides, the Serranus guttatus, Val. (nec. BL), also from the 

 East Indies, which according to Günther is the cyanostigmatoides 

 of Dr. Bleeker. 



Valenciennes gives the S. cardinalis, from Parra, without 

 having seen a specimen of it; and itis not surprising, therefore, 

 that he afterwards should have made it the S. rupestris, when he 

 received it from St. Domingo. 



Trisolropis petrosus. 



Serranus petrosus, Poey, Mem. ii., 136; Repert. ii.,i55. 



Ground color of the body a rather light-brownish violet, covered 

 with pretty close-set round spots of a reddish brown, of about the size 

 of the pupil of the eye ; besides which large quadrilateral spaces may 

 be indistinctly traced along the trunk. There is no red on the body or 

 fins, which are of a dark brown, except the pectoral, which are black 

 with a broad, bright orange border, distinctly marked, at least in the 

 large specimens, the only ones that I could observe. The preopercle is 

 rounded. It reaches a weight of 25 pounds. I sent, at the request of 

 M. Agassiz, a specimen V20 mm - long to the Museum of Comparative 

 Anatomy, at Cambridge, Mass. In Havana it is called Bonaci de 

 piedra. 



