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Family EPINEPHELIDAE. 
Subfamily EpiNEPHELnsTAE. 
Genus EPINEPHELUS Bloch, 1793. 
EPINEPHELUS FORSYTHI Whitley. 
Epinephelus Jorsythi Whitley, Austr, Zool. viii, 4, March 12, 1937, p. 222, pi. xiii, fig. 4. 
Lord Howe Island (type), Middleton and Elizabeth Reefs. 
The species described below is similar to E^inephelus fuscoguttatus as figured 
by Bleeker (Atlas Ichth. vii, 1872, pi. cccvii, fig. 3), but is not true fiiscoguttatus, as I 
have noted in my Middleton Reef paper (loc. cit.), 
D. xi/15 ; A. iii/9, P. i/17, V. i/5 ; C. 15. L. lat circa 80 to hypural joint. 
Head (255 mm.) 2*4, depth (230) 2*6 in standard length (615). Eye (27) 9, 
snout (50) 5*1, interorbital (47*5) 5*3, depth of caudal peduncle (67) 3*8, longest (5th) 
dorsal spine (71) 3*6, pectoral (90) 2*5 in head. 
Head and body compressed. Interorbital sunken, except medially. Nostrils 
large. Bands of strong hooked teeth on jaws ; similar smaller ones on vomer and 
palatines. A few exterior canines anteriorly in both jaws and an inner series of longer 
teeth on mandibles posteriorly. 
Preoperculum finely serrated above and strongly toothed towards its angle. 
Inferior border of preoperculum smooth. Three opercular spines, the middle one 
most posterior, and situated nearer the lower spine than the upper. 
Scales oblong, rather large, generally cycloid, though some on the flanks are a 
trifle ciliated. 
Margins of soft fins all rounded. 
General colour in formalin pale brownish, conspicuously but irregularly marbled 
in parts with darker brown on head and body. About five dark brown patches on each 
side of dorsal base, another on nape, and a small blackish saddle over caudal peduncle. 
Head, belly, and all fins conspicuously spotted with various shades of brown in ocellus- 
like markings. Fins with a narrow edging of white. Tips of spinous dorsal membranes 
black. Tongue with some brown spots, otherwise interior of mouth is white. Eye 
bluish. 
Described from a fine specimen (Q. M. Regd. No. I. 5546) from Lodestone Reef, 
Townsville, Queensland, presented by Mr. George Coates. 
