306 Beview of the Fish of Cuba 



Cat. i. 143, does not belorig to the original type, as it has yellow 

 pectorals. 



There is a Serranus brunneus, which is the Fpinephelus 

 brunneus of Bloch, tab. 328 ; but írom its rounded caudal and 

 its anal noted as III. 8, it belongs to the genus where Bloch 

 placed it. 



Trisotropis aguají* 



Trisotropis aguají, Poey, Repert. i i. 229 ; Synopsis, 284. 



It is well distinguished from the preceding species by the color 

 of the vertical fins, in having the caudal, the anal, and soft 

 dorsal half yellow, which covers the base, and half dark brown 

 which covers the broad border. I sent a very large stuffed 

 specimen to the Cambridge Museum, about lllO" 3111, long, 

 which is figured in my MS. portfolio, as well as one other of 

 li20 mm - The popular ñame is aguají. 



Trisotropis bonaci. 



Serranus bonaci, Poey, Mem. ii. 129, Rep. ii. 155 ; Syn. 283. 

 Bonací arara, Parra, tab. 16, fig. 2. 

 Johníus guttatus, var. Schn., in Bl. Syst. 77. 



I only once met with a large specimen, 425 mm> long; and 

 would have liked to find several, in order to confirm more com- 

 pletely the specific characters shown in my drawing and in my 

 Memorias y namely, the whole body covered with rounded spots 

 of a light reddish brown, on a darker violet-brown ground. It 

 had, however, no large flexuous quadrilateral spots. The fins 

 are of a more or less brownish green. The preopercle is 

 rounded. 



I believed, though with some doubt, when I wrote in my 

 Memorias, ii. 130, " that the Serranus arara of Val., Poiss. ii., 

 377, was the same as the Bonaci arara of Parra," to which he 

 joins it; but I have since seen that it is the same fish as the one 

 figured by M. Desmarets, Dict. Class., which is no other than 

 the Epinephelus lunulatus of Bloch. 



