ACANTHOPTERYGII. 
Pisces. 9 
TELEOSTEL 
ACANTHOPTEEYGII. 
Pekcid^. 
Bleeker, P. Syfetema Percarum revisum. Parts 1 & 2. Arch. Neeii. 
xi. pp. 247-340. 
A revised arrangement of the genera of Percoid Fishes. 
Paralabrax, Gir., is based upon a character which fails in both the 
typical species. Girard overlooked the very thin 7th-branchiostegal 
ray in P. clathratus, which Gill separated in 1861 as Atractoperca. 
Remarks on Serranus nebulifer and clathratus. Steindachner, SB. Ak. 
Wien, Ixxii. p. 29. 
Siniperca maUahi (Guich.), sp. n., Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) i. art. v. 
China. 
Percalabrax pmcilonotus and spilonotus (Guich.), spp. nn. id. 1. c., 
China. 
Pseudolates cavifrons, g. & sp. nn., Alleyne & Macleay, P. Linn. Soc. 
N. S. W. i. p. 262, pi. iii. Torres Straits ?.* 
\l Centropomus unionensis, Bocourt, redescribed ; Steindachner, SB. Ak. 
^ien, Ixxiv. p. 49. 
Aprion microdon^ sp. n. P, id. 1. c. p. 206, Sandwich Islands. 
Callanthias allporti, sp. n., Gunther, Ann. N. H. (4) xvii. p. 390, Tas- 
mania. (The genus is new to the Antarctic fauna.) 
Serranus. The diagnoses of the following species (the plates of which 
have already appeared) are printed in Bleeker's Atlas Ichthyol. vi. pt. 
30 : — Epinephelus urodelus, Forsk., and miniatus, Forsk., p. 41, cyano- 
stigma, K. v. H., p. 42, argus, Bl., Schn., p. 43,* ybrmosits, Sh., p. 44, 
leopardus, Lac., and hoedti, Blkr., p. 45, undtdosus, Q. G., and ambly- 
ceplialus, Blkr., p. 46, waandersi, Blkr., p. 47, angularis^ C. V., and 
variolosus^ C. V., p. 48, lanceolatus, Bl., p. 49, maculatus, Bl., p. 60, 
pantherinus, Lac., and janseni, Blkr., p. 51,. matrospilus, Blkr., p. 52, 
corallicola, K. v. H., and bontoides. Blkr., = liowlandi, Gthr., p. 53, 
stcllans, Rich., p. 54, merra, Lac., p. 55, gilberti, Rich., p. 66, fusco-gut- 
tatus, Riipp., = dispor, Gthr.f, and microdon, Blkr., p. bl^polyphecadion, 
Blkr., p. 58, goldmarmi, Blkr., p. 69, polypodophilus, Blkr., and sex- 
fasciatus, K. v. H., p. 60, summana, Forsk., p. 61, rhyncholepis^ Blkr., 
and cceruleo-punctatus^ Bl., p. 62, hceveni, Blkr., p. 63, ongus^ Bl., p. 64, 
dictiophorus^ Blkr., p. 65, nebulosus^ C. V., and fasciatus, Forsk., p. 66. 
V Serranus gigas, Briinn., ? — S. mentzeli, C. V., very plentiful and of 
large size at Rio Janeiro ; Steindachner, op. cit. Ixxiv. p. 175. y 
\/ Serranus x>anamensis^ sp. n., id. op. cit. Ixxii. p. 651, pi. i. fig. 1, and S. 
albo-maculatus, Jen., figured, pi. i. fig. 2. 
* This is clearly nothing but Lates calcarifer, Bl. ; its occurrence in Australian 
waters was pointed out by Gunther in 1870. — Rec. 
t These species are quite distinct in the British Museum collection. — Eec. 
